I have my main EP collection on my HDD. When i plug an engine prime USB into my laptop, the collection shows duplicates - basically all of the tracks on my HDD & the tracks that i previously exported onto the USB.
What is the point of this? it makes a mess of my collection view and provides no obvious value.
The user experience for syncing to USB is very troublesome (crate drag & drop goes to wrong parent crate etc), and i have gone back to Rekordbox until this software improves.
Any insight on why the software behaves like this would be welcomed.
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StereoHead,
You’re not the first person to make this observation. We’re working on improving this and further separating out local and ejectable drive collections.
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that’s good to know. thanks for the update 
Any update on this? This is my single biggest issue with Engine and seems like it should be relatively straightforward to fix!
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So its not really a fix, but more or less something i’ve noticed about the duplicates, they are not actually duplicates, I mean the data and the songs are the same, but there is a distinction. in the tags, there is a tag named “Packed” I’'m not going to assume I know what it means even tho i think I may have an idea, but that is one difference I’ve noticed so far, so I just sort by that tag and select the dupes, right click and remove them from crate, i’m afraid to remove from collection as that could prove a real and true pain if they in fact are different instances of the same file. Yikes! But all in all, I’m getting used to EP and as long as i keep to my standard workflow it seems to work fine, so I’m absolutely loving my Prime 4 these days.
Yes, it’s all explained in the manual.
its now May 2021 and this still seems to happen.
