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Need help setting up Portable Library for an external HD
tangolovers:
--- Quote from: RoderickGI on July 24, 2020, 04:26:36 pm ---Matt, would the lack of a Platform.jmd file also cause a problem with Special Characters?
We have been having a conversation about the Portable Library functionality separately for Windows and Mac, with the Special Characters (accents and so on) issue appearing again in Windows. See post https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,126128.msg874737.html#msg874737
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Would this be more of an import issue? The same issue appears both on Mac & PC. Previously it seems to have caused a lot of issues, but it doesn't seem to be preventing playback on the PC. But definitely a strange and concerning issue. Let me know if this requires a new thread or if it's even of concern.
RoderickGI:
I think you need a Platform.jmd file on your all PCs and the Mac, and it should contain the single line [Platform]=Windows. My Windows PC has that, and I've only ever used Windows. You can copy the files from one that you found. It is only a text file, and not encrypted or compressed.
You can view the Platform.jmd on the Mac by opening a text editor and then dragging the Platform.jmd file into it, or using the File Open function.
Your Mac also needs that file, so after adding it to the first PC, take a Library Backup from the first PC and Restore it on the Mac. Then confirm the PL setup and see if that fixes the slashes issue.
I may have that the wrong way around, if the Library was originally from the Mac, and you may need the file to contain [Platform]=Apple. But our past efforts on fixing the Windows Library may have left the Library in a mixed platform state.
Let's address the Special Characters issue over on the Windows thread. That issue only happens on Windows, doesn't it? From memory, the Windows Library originally came from the Mac though, so that may be a contributing fact.
Matt:
I can't explain a platform.jmd not being saved. It's part of every save to write it if it doesn't exist. You don't have some software that could be standing in the way do you?
Matt:
Please make sure you're running the very latest MC.
RoderickGI:
--- Quote from: Matt on July 25, 2020, 06:53:14 pm ---Please make sure you're running the very latest MC.
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Indeed. I think Susie is, but I did notice the reference to "C:\Users\susie\AppData\Roaming\J River\Media Center 23\Library", which would be an old MC23 Library that hasn't been cleaned up.
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