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[nickeaston]

Recently I transferred all my music (about 8,000) to my c: drive from my g: drive and all my dozens of playlists disappeared.  (I changed the filename path)  This is at least the third time in 3 years I have faced re-creating my playlists.

Playlists in recent iterations of Jukebox are apparently embedded and difficult or impossible to back up.

[JimH]

With MC, you can use the "move" function to transfer your files to a new drive.  This will preserve all the correct locations in your playlists.

[jleerigby]

Recently I transferred all my music (about 8,000) to my c: drive from my g: drive and all my dozens of playlists disappeared.  (I changed the filename path)  This is at least the third time in 3 years I have faced re-creating my playlists.

Playlists in recent iterations of Jukebox are apparently embedded and difficult or impossible to back up.

File> Library> Back Up

This backs up all of your library, view schemes and playlists.

[nickeaston]

All I have left are my playlists I exported as .m3u files before I moved my music library.

It doesn't appear that MC can import .m3u playlists...

[Alex B]

Because you have a new C: drive, I suppose you did a new installation of your OS and software as well.

So it's too late think what you could have done to preserve your playlists inside MC. There is several ways to do that depending on your OS version and disk partitioning schema.

Now your .m3u files are everything you have left from previous installation. If you open an .m3u file in a text editor you can find that there is a filename path for each entry. So you can easily correct the path. Just use search/replace command in your text editor to correct them all at once.

You can right click .m3u file/files to import them  (Right Click > Media Center > Import). After that you can find them at "Imported Playlists".

[xen-uno]

Nick,

It does import them...it's just not apparent. If I import NewXen.m3u from a dir with no other files present, it will say "No files imported" but...if I look in MC's tree under Playlists>Imported Playlists, NewXen will be there.

10^-27

edit: yeah...what Alex said

[nickeaston]

Yes, thanks all

Luckily the playlists were exported with the correct paths so they imported faultlessly and I have an otherwise great jukebox again.

[nickeaston]

So, now that I'm back in action with the best-of-the-bunch jukebox and understand the library backup scheme, how can I get my playlists out of the 'imported' folder and back in the primary playlist folder?

Hey, it appears that they drag ok to the 'playlist' folder...