I have run tt2's excellent deduper program before but I needed to do it again. When I try to run it on any amount of duplicates, I get the following error:
Line: 1272
Char: 3
Invalid procedure call or argument: 'Mid'
Code: 800A0005
Source: Microsoft VBScript runtime error
I'm not sure what this means or how I can resolve it.
Thanks
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Hi there,
That line is part of this function:
Function Ext(P)
Ext=LCase(Mid(P,InStrRev(P,".")))
End Function
And it shouldn't cause an error if P is a file path that includes a file extension of the form .<ext> . Offhand I can't think of the circumstances that would lead to this error as empty paths should be handled differently elsewhere in the code. That said I have tweaked the code a little so that it fails more gracefully. If you download a fresh copy of the script it should now list out the string that causes a problem, which might help narrow things down. A quick check suggests there are five places where this function is called. I may have to add additional code after each call to make sure a valid file extension has been returned.
tt2
I thought I had downloaded the most recent version (via your site). I have done a little experimenting and it appears that if I select multiple items, and any of those have a "!" (which I take to mean something is missing) next to it, it won't de-dupe any of the block. If I select every other item except the ones that have the "!" and the match to that song, it will de-dupe. I can sometimes de-dupe a small amount of items even if there's a "!" but I haven't figured out why. For the moment I am just doing it in batches to and working around it. It's still faster than manually selecting items. Thank you for your program and thank you for reading my question.
Hi,
I uploaded a new version (1.0.4.9) moments before pushing Post on my reply to you above.
If there are two duplicates, one of which cannot be found, and thus has an exclamation mark, while there is a matching track that can be found, DeDuper should be able to merge any ratings, play counts, and playlist membership to the track that is found, then delete the other entry. Missing tracks have a empty path when checked in script. I'm still unsure why you're getting this error from a section of the code I haven't needed to revisit in 10 years but I'll do what I can to fix it or workaround it.
As a matter of interest are you seeing this error in the initial scanning phase (which also does the merging steps and unchecks the proposed discards) or in the second phase of the script that actually deletes things?
tt2
I downloaded the latest version. I am seeing it in the initial phase. If I get the error, it won't delete anything, so I have to make a new selection that either excludes the missing track item(s) or includes it but only if there aren't very many other tracks to process. If I'm selecting duplicates with missing track items only (or with a small amount of other songs), I get a pop up that says "One [or two] missing duplicate was found. Would you like to clean it?" at which point I say yes, and it solves the problem.
My library was all sorts of messed up so I may be the only person to have created this specific error. As I said, I do have my workaround so I am still able to do cleanup, albeit in smaller bits.
Thanks again
Has the newer version of the script output an error message? It should be something like:
Error with path <some text>.
Where <some text> is probably going to be blank when all things are considered.
tt2
Yes, the path was blank.
I've manually deleted all those blank items now and the de duper seems to be working on the remaining items.
Thank you
You're welcome. 🙂
tt2
How to fix 'Invalid procedure call or argument: 'Mid'' error in tt2's deduper program?
