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[GHammer]

Through much practise, I have stupidity down to an art.

How can I search for missing files in MC 10?

If a song exists in the database but does not exist on the harddrive, how do I find the entry in MC?

No, I do not want to update the library, that simply tells me that x number of missing entries were removed from the library.

What I want to do is to go to the surces and recreate the missing files.

Thanks!

[KingSparta]

I don't think you can, i think you can just see the big red "X"

maybe a usefull option, not sure what you could do with it other than if MC had a Option To Auto Re-Find (Search All Drives For The Missing files)

[JustinChase]

I do not think there is any way to do this.

Someone had an issue a while bakc where they accidentally deleted pretty much every file in their library, and was asking if there was a way to 'find' all of the "missing" tracks.  i dont' think anything was ever suggested that worked.

The only thing I can think of to suggest is this...

Sometimes MC removes songs from my library (usually when moving files and selecting to NOT overwrite if the file already exists ), I update library to remove the 'missing' files (I know you donlt want to do this, I'm just telling you what I do), then re-import from my server.  This will remove the incorrect entries, and reimport the songs back into the library.  The tags are all intact, it just needs to re-import the tracks to get the library back to 'correct'.

I'm not sure why you have missing tracks, but it they are actually still in the database, this should work.  I do NOT know if this has any affect on playcounts or playlists, but it's what I do.

Good luck.

[GHammer]

Ok, guess I'll just scan the library for Xes.

But, it would make a good addition to the smartlist options I think. Otherwise how would I know what needs to be reimported?

Course I could always just not delete things...