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[rgmorse]

Is there some way to update or refresh a library after changing files outside of JRiver using utilities such as Windows Explorer or Tag&Rename?  

I am ripping a large classical music collection and setting up a file structure of composer\album\track.  After dbPowermaster does its thing, I tweak the folder and file names so that they sort correctly (symphonies come before violin concertos, file names (movements) all in proper order).  Once I get it set up it works great and allows an electronic analog to browsing through a library of CDs on a gigantic shelf.  

For my Main Library I set up the root drive as the place JRiver looks for files, and then have subdirectories for Classical, Collections, Pop, etc.  My problem is that if I tweak the directory and file structure (as is constantly necessary as my ripping progresses) , the Main Library no longer finds the files.  I am hoping that there is a simple way to update or reset the Main Library after I change the underlying files.  

[JimH]

It would be best to tag inside MC and use MC's tools.  Rename, Move & Copy is the tool to try.  Try a few files before you do very many.

You can add custom tags to MC if needed. 

The wiki has topics that will help.

[blgentry]

I'm unclear on what's happening.  Are you using auto import?  Or are you importing directories one at a time?

Brian.

[CountryBumkin]

If you want to do it manually, in Standard View you can go to "Drives & Devices>Explorer" and locate the folder you want to update then right click on it and select "Import Into Library".

[rgmorse]

Thank you everybody for the help.  I figured out what I was doing wrong, cause by lack of experience and some dunderheadedness. 

First I did not have auto-import looking at the right directories.  So I pointed auto-import to the directories with the files on my server. 

More basic, I lost sight of where the files actually are.  The files are on my server, I was working from a client computer.  I went to "Drives and Devices" on the client computer to change the file names on the server.  Having corrected the auto-import setting, the library on the server was updating just fine.  I had to sync the library on the server to the one on the client, and all was well.   

Not being one to pussyfoot around, I then dumped about 20 GB of new files onto the server, and the library updated perfectly. 

Thanks for the help, and your patience with a new guy trying to figure it all out.