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Tags: Lost tags when moved media
blgentry:
You may or may not want to do this, but I thought I'd respond to this one question...
--- Quote from: dreandre on November 17, 2015, 10:12:30 pm ---How do I tell the RM&C tool to go the new drive letter, but then update the files according to the folder structure?
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Uncheck "directory". Check "Find and Replace". Then put your old drive prefix in Find. Put your new drive letter (and maybe base directory) in Replace. Look at the preview to make sure it's right. Try it on ONE FILE first. See if it works. If it does, you can do a larger batch. Then, eventually, all of the files.
Good luck.
Brian.
dreandre:
Indeed Brian! Reading up on that right now, and I think that is what I should have done to begin with!
RoderickGI:
--- Quote from: dreandre on November 17, 2015, 10:12:30 pm ---NEW QUESTION: Is it possible to generate new sidecar files? From a back-up perhaps? or will the back-up look for the old drive locations and try to put the files there?
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Once you have the tags back in the library, and everything pointing to the correct location, then running the "Update tags from library" for the affected files will recreate any missing Sidecar XML files. As you moved the whole directories, MC should find the existing Sidecar files, so you would only need to recreate the missing ones.
--- Quote from: dreandre on November 17, 2015, 10:12:30 pm ---How do I tell the RM&C tool to go the new drive letter, but then update the files according to the folder structure? (see capture1). Right now, without adding any expression commands, it wants to update directly into the root folder. (see capture 2)
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I know it is greyed out and probably not active, but you should uncheck the "Move all files in folder" setting before doing anything else.
It looks like you have a range of directory name structures for movies, Some are the movie name plus year i.e. [Name] ([year]). Some are the file name, and some are just movie files in the root Movie directory.
Therefore, I think if you use Brian's method of fixing the problem, you need to uncheck the Directories item, and check the "Find & Replace" item. Then find :\\DRESCLOUD\Public\" and replace with "S:\". Check that carefully before executing though. You should be able to see if it is doing the correct thing.
You could use the RM&CF function later to standardise your directory naming if you wished, to something like S:\Shared videos\Movies\[Name] ([year]).
EDIT: I see Brian and I agree. 8)
dreandre:
OK Continuing onward......
--- Quote ---Once you have the tags back in the library, and everything pointing to the correct location, then running the "Update tags from library" for the affected files will recreate any missing Sidecar XML files.
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Just for the sake of this thread, I have updated my movies tags by hand (rather than using a backup). Then I select the files and run "Update tags from Library" and I get the error screen in capture3. This means that I can't generate new sidecar files correct?
--- Quote ---I should look into why tags don't seem to be stored in most Video files, because I thought they should be for many formats.
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Does this mean that we are waiting for more follow up information after you do some research? :)
PS.... Enjoying this education process... :o
RoderickGI:
--- Quote from: dreandre on November 18, 2015, 02:24:43 am ---Then I select the files and run "Update tags from Library" and I get the error screen in capture3. This means that I can't generate new sidecar files correct?
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Strange. I actually tested that process by renaming a sidecar file for one on my movies and recreated it by running "Update tags from Library". The old and the new sidecar files were identical. I wonder what is going on there. Were any sidecar files actually created, despite the error messages?
We must have some different setting somewhere. However I thought the only setting that would make a difference was the "Store tags in external sidecar files if the file type does not support tagging: Video" flag. Are you sure that setting is set? There should be a tick next to the Video when you click on the setting, as per the attached image.
I'm also wondering if the original sidecar files that you must have moved with the movie files are causing a problem. I would have thought they shouldn't, and would just be overwritten if they existed when you ran "Update tags from Library".
--- Quote from: dreandre on November 18, 2015, 02:24:43 am ---Does this mean that we are waiting for more follow up information after you do some research? :)
PS.... Enjoying this education process... :o
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That might be a while down the track. I'll get around to it, but I think someone wants me to mow the grass, and do some other work around the place that might come first. ;D
Actually it may require some input from the developers as to what is going on.
Learning is always fun. I'm learning more by helping you and others. It is good.
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