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[lise]

My M:\Media\Movies drive got full so I moved all of the movies onto external drive N and forgot to tell MCv33 to update to that drive letter.

But it turns out I can't do it.  Whenever I open MC instead of seeing all of my files on the old drive with a red x on them indicating the files aren't where they are supposed to be, the files just disappear within 1 minute. I don't have time to select them and tell them where to point; they just disappear from "All Files" (which have no rules about displaying files in this or that drive.)

I've opened 3 different previous backups, and it's always the same. How can I get the files to just indicate they aren't there anymore, rather than just disappearing?  Is there a setting I don't know about?

[zybex]

Try disabling Auto-Import as soon as you open MC. Either remove the folder(s) from auto-import, or change their "fix broken links" setting to "No".

[marko]

You likely won't be able to do that quick enough, so, try this...

Go to your auto import settings and disable "fix broken links" setting for the folders concerned.
Ok your way out.
Restore a recent library backup, crucially unticking the "settings" checkbox.

Now you should get peace to fix your links at your leisure.
Once done, enable the "fix broken links" setting in auto import again.

Also good to know for the future, is, if two folders are in MC's auto import settings, and files get moved from one to the other outside of MC, auto import will (make that, should) spot this and update the file paths accordingly, retaining the import and play histories. I say "should" as I've seen mixed success with this. Sometimes the old entries are removed and the new imported as new files.

[lise]

Try disabling Auto-Import as soon as you open MC. Either remove the folder(s) from auto-import, or change their "fix broken links" setting to "No".

Go to your auto import settings and disable "fix broken links" setting for the folders concerned.
Ok your way out.
Restore a recent library backup, crucially unticking the "settings" checkbox.
Now you should get peace to fix your links at your leisure.
Once done, enable the "fix broken links" setting in auto import again.

That did the trick. Thanks.  Very important to 'uncheck' setting


I had figured out a different way of fixing.  I used notepad++ to search for "<Field Name="Filename">M:\Media\Movies\ in all xml files and replaced with "<Field Name="Filename">N:\Media\Movies\  The only problem with that approach is that I lost all of my import date info (everything showed as imported today), and I rely on that field quite a bit for various housekeeping tasks.

I used the method you both suggested instead, making the changes to my import settings first and then restoring a backup. Worked like a charm and my import info stayed intact.


Thanks a bunch!