Unwanted splitted folders in windows 7

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1976kjell

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Hello

I have a folder named "my music" in the windows explorer in my windows 7 operating system

Some of the folders become splitted

One example is that it had been created 2 folders of my "bon jovi"-folder containing mp3-files. One of the folders has the original name "bon jovi" and the new folder has the name "jon bon jovi". Its typical that f.ex song nr. 1,5 and 7 are in the new folder and the rest of the songs are in the original folder. Strange behaviour by windows explorer.

If I cut and paste files to create one folder again, it becomes like it had been earlier, one album

But after some minutes, it is splitted again

Someone know how to fix this problem?
 
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Windows Explorer does not create new folders at random. They have been created by something else. If you have processed the original files with an audio application, that may have created the folders.

After you move the files back, are you running any audio apps or playing any of the tracks? If you are, that is most likely the culprit. If the move occurs on its own within a few minutes, bring up Task Manager and watch to see if any apps start up.

It sounds to me like what you would get if you are converting the file format (with something like dBPoweramp) instead of playing it.
 
My PC is new, i have owned it for 1,5 month or so. I dont know about any audio application and I didnt played the files just after the "restoring" to the original folder.

I had a laptop before also with win 7, an issue like this didnt appear in that PC. My parents have an older PC (3-4 years) from HP (pavillion) with vista, and the same issue is on that PC.

Maybe my PC originally has an app.

When I download a file from DC++, often the files creates a folder and a subfolder, often based on the name of the artist and album. I dont want it like that. I want the downloaded files to be "bare" in my music, not hidden under a folder and a subfolder. It was as I wanted it in an older PC with XP. Off course, if I download a whole album, then its ok, that its saved as an album.

I think that maybe if an mp3-file has information in the details about artist and album, the the unwanted folders will be created. How to program the windows explorer to not use the details to create new albums?

One extreme example of this issue of this issue is this: I had one folder named "Peter, paula and Mary", a band from the 60s. This folder had been splitted into 5 folders, with different ways to write the name of the band. And almost each of this folders have 3 or more folders with different albumnames containing only one mp3-file. One folder had "&" instead of "and", one folder didnt had ",". Im gonna try to make one folder now. Maybe it goes back to create 5 albums.

Maybe the mp3-files is downloaded from a "best of" album and windows explorer creates the folders named after the original albums from the band.

I guess this is a very actual reason. I have downloaded summer albums, 50s-albums, 60s-albums. Some mp3-files in this albums are missing, and are another place in my music in a new automatically created unwanted folder.

Another strange part of the issue is that if I try to fix some of the folders by f.ex deleting artist information, and get some files to one folder, and if it remains as I want it to be with the fixed folders, then suddenly another folder gets destroyed by windoes explorer by moving one ore more files to other folders which is difficult to find in "my music". Its almost like the explorer works like this: when some folders have been created to one, number of folders has decreased in "my music". Then the explorer starts to look for other folders that can be splitted, so the original number of folders remains

But how to get rid of this behaviour?

Sorry for my english, Im from Norway :)
 
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This sounds suspiciously like a file-sharing app which is against the forum rules.

Mp3 files have two types of information, the filename and the ID3 tag information. If you find that "and" in one place appears as "&" somewhere else, it's probably because the ID3 information has been used to name the file in the second location instead of the Windows filename.

Your problem lies somewhere in the download app; a player or media manager that is automatically collecting media files and putting them in a default location; your PC is affected by malware probably arriving with some of the files.
 
The same mp3-files were in my older laptop with win 7, the issue didnt appear in that PC.

The windows media player worked ok in the laptop, but in my new PC, it just a chaos in the windows media player, maybe it is some connection here

File-sharing is against the rules of the forum, what did you mean?
 
1976kjell said:
File-sharing is against the rules of the forum, what did you mean?
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