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Solved EXPANSION's Projects/sounds/samples appear twice

Discussion in 'MASCHINE Area' started by untoldlbfmb, Dec 10, 2021.

  1. untoldlbfmb

    untoldlbfmb NI Product Owner

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    Hello,

    I have a strange behavior with some of my expansions.
    The projects/sounds/samples appear twice in the Maschine library.
    But they're installed just in one location (Users/shared...), no duplicate files, folders etc...
    Does anyone know how to solve this ?

    thank you.
     

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  2. Blindeddie

    Blindeddie Well-Known Member

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    untoldlbfmb NI Product Owner

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  4. Blindeddie

    Blindeddie Well-Known Member

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    That is the downside…unfortunately!!!

    did you right click and do a “Find in Explorer/Finder”? Perhaps there are preset files at another location unbeknownst to you. If so, just delete the secondary location and do a rescan… if you have already tried this, disregard!!!
     
  5. untoldlbfmb

    untoldlbfmb NI Product Owner

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    i already have and it goes to the same folder ;-)
    Thank you
     
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    untoldlbfmb NI Product Owner

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    i have tried erasing the komplete.db3 file, and the problem is still there... weird
     
  7. Blindeddie

    Blindeddie Well-Known Member

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    Even after rescan? Very strange indeed, if there is only one preset, it should not show twice… Totally not sure if you even can or if it would cause this, but do you have a user path that also includes the folders for the factory presets? Just me thinking out loud!!
     
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  8. untoldlbfmb

    untoldlbfmb NI Product Owner

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    Yes even after rescan.
    The only working solution I have found is to delete folders inside the main maschine expansions folder concerned.
    Rescan.
    And then put back the deleted folders.

    strange…
     
  9. untoldlbfmb

    untoldlbfmb NI Product Owner

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    If the problem wasn't with the komplete.db3 file, it can be related with service center or something else.
    I continue to investigate.
     
  10. untoldlbfmb

    untoldlbfmb NI Product Owner

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    OK,

    I have found the problem.
    In the past i have installed free kontakt libraries, and then delete them.
    But the .plist files concerned were still located in /library/preferences/

    During MASCHINE launch, it scans the .plist files for the instruments concerned, then it scans the folder /users/shared/ to see if the missing kontakt banks are in this folder and this is what create duplicates of my maschine's expansions presets.

    So i've erased every .plist files concerned by the libraries i no longer have, and i had to delete manually the corresponding lines in komplete.db3 > k_content_path

    It took me hours to figured out what the problem was.
    Now everything is ok, no more duplicates for my presets, sounds, projects etc etc...
     
  11. untoldlbfmb

    untoldlbfmb NI Product Owner

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    This was your answer that guided me on the right way to finding out where the problem was.

    Thank you.
     
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  12. Blindeddie

    Blindeddie Well-Known Member

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    Glad you got it Sorted!!!