[ronnie]

Hi all,

first of all, I hope that this question isn't a double, if so please excuse me and just send a link to the correct thread, I couldn't find any fitting ones!


I started cleaning up my library (which is managed by MobileSheets) by renaming files within the app (edit -> Files -> rename files). Most of the time, it works like a charm, but I encountered some issues:

1. I have two songs with file names "Example" and "Example2". I deleted the song "Example" from my library and wanted to rename the second one to "Example" instead. The library always tells me that the file already exists. I double-checked both my library and the synchronisation to Google Drive, the original file "Example" does not exist anymore. Also, I used a program to read the .db file but couldn't find an entry there either. So there seems to be a "dead entry" still remembering the old, deleted file name. Any ideas where I could find and delete that?

2. I have two song files that I renamed to "Song v1.pdf" (original: Song.pdf) and "Song v2.pdf" (original: Song xy.pdf), both of which have the in-app song name "Song". On my android tablet, this is no problem. When I use cloud folder synchronisation (with "only update folder" option) to Google Drive, it asked me which file belongs to which song, which I selected correctly, and both files appeared correctly in the Google Drive folder. Now I wanted to synchronise my Android phone (using "only update device" option), it created three songs: Song v1 was correcty created, Song v2 was created two times, one time with wiped-out meta data, one time with correct metadata but an old file name of Song v2, which was "Song xy.pdf". I have no idea where the information comes from, since this file does not exist in the MobileSheets database on my tablet or Google Drive. A complete reset of the app and new synchronisation did not fix the issue, also a complete wipe and resynch of the Google Drive folder did not help. So again, some dead metadata lying around which I can't find.

I'm super glad for any help I can get! I'm also open to kind of wiping my whole library and re-importing all files with their metadata, so if this sounds like a valid solution, I'm happy for some instructions on how to do that best.

Cheers!

[Chris Bakker]

Hi,
I ran into some problems with files, so perhaps my approach will help you.
(i have a dutch version running, so if the names are not exactly correct, im sorry).
In settings choose extra settings.
There should be a Find missing file and Fix broken filepaths.
Just run them to see if this fixes the issue.

Be sure that deleting it from mobilesheets also have the option to delete the file, it wont be deleted if its still in use.

for the moderator the  "Fix broken filepaths" (Herstel bestandspaden) is stil in english in my dutch version.

[ronnie]

Hi,
I ran into some problems with files, so perhaps my approach will help you.
(i have a dutch version running, so if the names are not exactly correct, im sorry).
In settings choose extra settings.
There should be a Find missing file and Fix broken filepaths.
Just run them to see if this fixes the issue.

Be sure that deleting it from mobilesheets also have the option to delete the file, it wont be deleted if its still in use.

for the moderator the  "Fix broken filepaths" (Herstel bestandspaden) is stil in english in my dutch version.

Hi Chris,
thanks for your reply. I already ran the "Find missing file" option. On my tablet, nothing shows up (which is expected because everything works properly except for not being able to rename files to a specific name). On my android phone, the non-existing file "Song xy.pdf" shows up which is also expected, but just confirms my problem  when I delete the Song linking to the missing file, but synchronise with the cloud again, it is created again.