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Self-Duplicating Files

Postby pinger » Wed Sep 23, 2015 6:10 pm

I've had a recurring problem from time to time on various shows and I need some input to find how to solve it.....

If I have a show under construction (Producer 7) and have, say 50 graphics or photos thereon, something is causing those files to duplicate themselves...sometimes in multiple occasions. The first time I end up with two of each and now have 100. If it occurs again...then I have 150.....etc. Taking up a lot of disc space if I don't address...and a lot of time deleting if I do.

I'm trying to determine if this is being caused by Proshow (in which case it's happening to others as well), by Windows 7, or by my system for some reason.

Questions: 1) is this happening to anyone else 2) does someone know why 3) is there a fix?

Thanks,
pinger

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Re: Self-Duplicating Files

Postby gpsmikey » Wed Sep 23, 2015 9:32 pm

I have not heard of anyone else with that issue (I am also running Producer 7.0.3527 on windows 7/64). The only thing I can think of that I have managed to do in the past (especially in email) is if you select a number of images for example and try to move them but only drag them in the same folder, you can end up with duplicates that way. Well, I just tried it with a test folder with 5 images in it and selecting them all and dragging to the same folder does not seem to do it, but if you have multiple images selected and do a copy/paste, that will give you that effect (I know I have managed to duplicate email messages though with select a bunch that I meant to drag to a different folder and accidentally "dropped" them in the same folder I am moving from resulting in all of them duplicated). In your case though, the only way I could duplicate it (at least in windows - I have not seen it in Producer) was to copy/paste the images to the same folder (CTRL-C/CTRL-V). Don't forget that CTRL-A will select all. Since I have not heard of this issue before and have not run into it myself, that is the best I can offer.

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Re: Self-Duplicating Files

Postby tdew » Thu Sep 24, 2015 2:04 pm

Also not something I've seen in Proshow, but it happens to me when I'm selecting a lot of pictures intending to copy or move them. Somehow, there's a false step that copies/duplicates them. If you catch it right away, you can use the Control Z to undo it, but you also lose all your selections and have to start over.

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Re: Self-Duplicating Files

Postby Marie78 » Thu Sep 24, 2015 11:13 pm

Hello

When you select files with a mouse with the CTRL key pressed, if you slightly move your hand you get a duplicate of the selected files.

If you use your mouse on a wood table (or wood imitation) or on a mouse pad which have not a uniform color, sometimes a move is detected even if you do not move and the diplication happens.
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Re: Self-Duplicating Files

Postby tdew » Fri Sep 25, 2015 3:47 am

Of course it usually happens to me when I'm selected a LOT of photos at the same time - never when it's just a few.

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Re: Self-Duplicating Files

Postby NLAlston » Sun Oct 18, 2015 2:02 pm

pinger wrote:
Questions: 1) is this happening to anyone else 2) does someone know why 3) is there a fix?

Thanks,
pinger


Answer 1: This has indeed happened to me.
Answer 2: in my case, I DON'T know why.
Answer 3: I am sure that there MUST be one, but I haven't found it.


It was with a very recent slideshow job that I experienced this very questionable behavior. My initial mindset, with this problem, was that maybe 'I' had done something I shouldn't have, to have caused what came about (even though I KNOW that I had been quite careful with the insertion of my photos). my current version is PSP7, and I never had anything like this to happen with either PSP5 or PSP6.
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