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EricaLina:
Hello I've used MC for more than a decade now. I have recently moved to a small sbc linux computer and transfered my library to there.  I have actually do

I successfully restored from a backup but some folders cant be found because of accent characters having a bad encoding.
I moved the paths to the same path without the accent characters to repair the paths. 

Play doctor can play the files but regular 'play' cannot. How can I repair the paths in MC?   I tried the rename menu option but that is confusing and doesn't seem to do what I want.

How can I repair the paths in MC to match the real path in the filesystem?

Thank you.
Erica

JimH:
MC has a Library Tool that can do Find and Replace.

Linux is case sensitive.  Paths and file names must match exactly.

EricaLina:
I see the find and replace tool. But the file path is not one
of the fields which is selectable.

Its also not clear what to put in the search and replace. The entire path? just the name that is broken? 

Ive gone back and changed the path again, and spelled it the way MC wants it.
At the moment, as much as I can tell, the path matches the one that exists for the song I have selected to try to fix.   So its really not clear
what I would change if I could.

If I could actually view the path in the database somewhere other than the mouse over that would be great. 

As it is I cannot paste what is in the mouse over, and it is also very small and hard to read.  If there is a difference between the path in MC and the path in reality I cannot see it.

EricaLina:
 I have found another find and replace tool that works on the paths,
but since the MC path appears to match the real path I'm not really sure what to do about it.

EricaLina:
In one instance MC has this in the path.  /Ani<303>bal/  That should be /Aníbal/  that is the actual path after I fixed it. 

I 'fixed' it because MC couldnt find it even though they both had the same garbage. 

I cant type it the way MC sees it, I have no
idea what its doing there, looks like unicode. 
All the promblems Im having come down to this sort of problem.

If I could replace i<303>  with í  in all the paths then I would be working again for all the artists with í in their name.


 

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