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I did a complete reinstall with this build Because whenever I went to cut and paste in the Action Window MC crashed, I posted for assistance but no one could help me. The build I had previous to this one had Review. It was 12.0438. In the AW Tag field options and View Ssheme there is no Review field . Also after the complete uninstall/reinstall I lost all my library backups, I don't understand whats happening.

If you enabled the "Remove Media Center 12 library files. (For complete uninstall only. Do not check if upgrading.)" uninstall option the uninstaller deleted all MC12 related files in your user profile specific application data location including all automatic backup files.

Alex, where would the most appropriate place to post requesting a modification to this behavior?  This bit me recently as well and I think could easily be made clearer.

I did have (Store in file tags) option enabled.

MC has the global option in "Options > General > Update tags when file info changes" and in addition each field has a separate option in "Options > Library & Folders > Standard/User Fields >  [Field name] > Edit this field > Store in file tags (when possible)". I hope you had both options ticked.

If the field values are stored in the file tags it is possible to recreate the field and update data from the files.

Would you explain how I can do this please?

You would need to recreate the field and do "Library Tools > Update Library (from tags)"

You could check the "format info" and try to find a field that contains your review data. Here's how you can access the format display:



You could right-click copy the detailed format info to clipboard and post it here.

Did you only have the automatic library backup files in the default location? No backup copies in some other safe location?

YES!!!

You really should consider of backing up all essential data on a second hard drive. Besides that an user or software error may occur a hard drive is likely to crash - sooner or later.

If you enabled the "Remove Media Center 12 library files. (For complete uninstall only. Do not check if upgrading.)" uninstall option the uninstaller deleted all MC12 related files in your user profile specific application data location including all automatic backup files.

The other issue of my Library Backups being deleted when I have done this before without ever effecting my Backups amazes me. I had no idea this would happen. Is this common knowledge? I had thousands of songs catalogued on MP3's and the data of them has completely disappeared.

Maybe you didn't have the "Remove library files" option ticked. AFAIK, its behavior has not changed.

In general, I'd recommend periodically saving a manual backup file to some other drive. The automatic backup files may not contain all recent changes if something unexpected happens to the library. Personally, I run the backup tool before and after any big changes (I give the files unique names if they are from the same date). Usually I have about 10 to 15 recent backup files in a safe location.

- losing all your data is a test of character and a valuable lesson in life! 

Are you a better person now? 

In MC: right-click > copy to clipboard

then change to your browser (have a reply dialog window opened) and simply do "right-click > paste..." or use "top menu > edit > paste".

In case you are using a different PC for accessing the forum you can paste the text to Notepad and save the file to disk.

Oh dear. It is not complicated at all.

I ment the "Post Reply" window here at the forum. Just paste the text inside your reply.

Once it is on the clipboard you can use control-v to paste it wherever you want.

One glitch is that the info shows up when you hold the mouse over it like it does when you hold your mouse over a file in the Playing Now pane, but it won't open so I can type info into it. When I click on the word Review instead of displaying the whole review I can only see the the first line of the album review in the detail to the right of review in the AW. All the reviews from the other albums appears to be there displayed as only the opening line from the pre uninstalled Review field.
Are you guys able to help me configure the view scheme to work correctly?

Sounds like you have the Edit Type set to 'cannot be edited'.

Go to Options > Library & Folders > Standard/User Fields >  [Field name] > Edit this field and change the Edit Type to 'Large Value'.

Ian

I'm glad it works now.

I actually mentioned the "Edit Type: Large Value" setting earlier, but maybe that wasn't clear enough:

As I said, the Review field is not one of the standard fields. You must have configured it at some stage. If it was not a user field you may have changed the displayed name of one of the standard fields. For example, the Lyrics and Notes fields can contain several text lines (i.e. the edit type is "Large Value") ...

From this point on remember to store a few latest library backup files in a safe place.