Topic: Moving Setup To New PC (Read 1320 times)

harleydude · « **on:** February 18, 2005, 10:52:59 am »

Currently have MC setup on drive d: with music on same drive. New setup will have MC installed on drive d: with all media files on drive e:. How will I need to make the current database work with the files in the new location?

Alex B · « **Reply #1 on:** February 18, 2005, 11:09:40 am »

1. Restore an MC library backup from the old setup in the new setup. Your files will show a "red x" icon since MC cannot find them. Don't mind about that.

2. Select all files

3. Use the Find and Replace tool for changing the filename paths:

Tools > Library Tools > Find and Replace... > tick only Filename (path), Find What: D:\, Replace: E:\.

harleydude · « **Reply #2 on:** February 18, 2005, 11:17:59 pm »

That did it!!! Thanks a lot less painful than I thought it was gonna be.

Rick

Alex B · « **Reply #3 on:** March 02, 2005, 07:48:03 pm »

If anyone else tries this it's good to test it first with a few test files. I forgot to mention that earlier.

EpF · « **Reply #4 on:** March 02, 2005, 08:16:20 pm »

Ha Ha! Just read that last post after setting MC to work on around 5 and a half thousand files!!! Ah well - I'm delighted that I found out how to do it, cause I thought I was going to lose all my Library date information by re-importing all the files. Thanks Alex

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