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Problems restoring libraries - Where is the library stored?
dtc:
--- Quote from: baldo on July 16, 2024, 08:36:14 am ---
I just want to now where the library that is being loaded is stored so that I can make sure that that is the one I want it to load up.
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To check the location of the current library go to Playing Now - Playing From and click on Main Library. It will tell you the location of the default Main library.
To load a library from a different location you can use Add Library under Playing From
It sounds like your process may be copying the new library to a location that is different than what is specified in Playing Now - Playing From.
When doing a Restore it restores to the location of the currently loaded library.
baldo:
with all due respect JimH, if I want to have 3 different copies of MY files then that is what I want. Three separate machines, 3 separate hard drives and 3 separate licenses for MC.
If I have paid for 3 separate licenses then surely it is up to me how I use them, as long as I am not breaching any laws like sharing them with others or anything like that.
Its also not like I am doing something that is beyond the capabilities of the product that I bought!!
I don't see how having 3 different versions of a library on one machine will solve my problem using library server. None of the machines are talking to one another. Am I missing something or have I not explained what I am doing here clearly enough?
Can someone help me to understand how creating lib1, lib2 and lib3 on my laptop will solve the issue on my Mac or on my PC?
Sorry if I come across as a bit strange but this just does not make sense. This has worked fine for years and years and years. Only now it is doing something odd. It seems the software performance is being downgraded for some reason. As I said, I am not doing anything that I have not done before.
Hope that makes sense.
baldo:
--- Quote from: JimH on July 17, 2024, 06:22:56 pm ---Look at the dates of the zip files.
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yes, i use that to identify the version that I am restoring to.
baldo:
hey dtc, thanks for your input. I think that this is what we need to look at.
I see that one of my librarys is on the C: Drive in apps data and I am not allowed to change the location of that.
Should I create three different linrarys on each machine and have each respective library pointing to the USB drive?
so, lib1 points to library on USB1, lib2 points to USB2, lib3 points to USB3.
the issue is comlicated by the mac drive location format, but that is another story!!!
dtc:
The default Windows location for the library is
C:\Users\<user name>\AppData\Roaming\J River\Media Center <version>\Library
so it looks like somehow you have gotten libraries in other places. What is the location of the installed library in Playing Now?
For simplicity you probably want to get back to just having the library in the default location. You might want to delete (or rename) these extra libraries and possible delete MC32 and do a clean install. Then you can do a restore of your backup file from the main system.
Not sure what happened, but I think you need to get back to a default setup.
Good luck.
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