Wahoo
I've had a brainwave.
I have them every blue moon just as the sun sets.
Windows has a system restore now to let people restore system changes that caused problems and so gives them a safety net in case of problems.
Recently with v9 with it's inline tag changes and esp. now with the new system we've seen alot of worries about messing up years worth of careful tagging.
All the worries are justified as no one wants to destroy years worth of hard work with many hours of devoted labour - I did it to 10,000 files before the alert was added and it's a REAL heartbreaker.
We can do manual back-up's of the library but we always forget or just space out and dont think about it etc. Even if we do, it means we have to replace the whole library to get the old tags back and its a messy complicated process.
My IdeaCreate a System Restore type feature in MC. Once a week/month whatever - we set it via a new pane in the options screen just for this - MC does a backup of our library. There are then options to view a list of 'MC restore points' and to click on any of the ones we want while browsing our files and see the tags change to what they were at that point. We can then choose a tool which resets the tags of the files selected to what they were at that restore point.
We can go up and down the list selecting the different restore points and the files will all change their tags to reflect what they were at that point.
It'd work a bit like Photoshop's 'History' palette so as we go up the list we see all the previous tag states.
The only difference would be that going through the list wouldn't change the tags, it would just show us the previous tag info and if we wanted to we could update the tags on the files selected to what was being shown.
As MC is getting more and more powerful, accidental tag mess up's can totally mess up years of careful tagging and management of our music/videos/pictures/films etc.
I've already had one BIG accident of 10,000 files, I've seen I think two other posts from people who also had pretty big mess up's and I'd imagine that there would be alot more people who have done it but not posted or have done it to a smaller extent.
We all tag our files with sooo much care and attention, it'd be GREAT to have a built in safety net to take care of all that hard work.
Also, if each of our files could have a unique ID number entered into the tags by MC that associated it with it's library info then the tags could be easily reassociated with the files even if they were moved outside of MC etc.
Comments? Suggestions? Hate the idea? Love it?