Hi,
I'm running out of space on my PC, and so planning an upgrade. I just want to make sure i've got a process down by which i won't lose custom tags, play stats, smartlist definitions, etc.
I gather that basically, if i do my moving within MC(10) and backup my library and restore it when i've got the new drive installed, that will do it. However, the distribution of my media files makes it a little more complex, so i wanted to make sure my thinking is correct.
Here's how it's set up now. I have two drives, and MC10 is installed on the master C drive, but the media is mostly in the following locations (but all in one MC library):
C:\music\
D:\mp3\
D:\music\
D:\vinyl\
D:\etc (there are a few more, but you get the idea)
After that everything is under Artist\Album subdirectories.
SO, my plan is:
1. Move all the content of C:\music to D:\cmusic (or something) USING MC10 (Library Tools > Move/Copy Disk file).
2. Backup Library.
3. Physically remove the old 40GB master drive and replace it with the new master drive.
4. Reinstall the OS and MC10 on the new drive.
5. Restore backed up Library to new MC10 install.
6. Move D:\music, D:\mp3 etc, to NEW C:\music, C:\mp3, whatever USING MC10.
7. Physically remove slave drive.
I think that should work, no? Will that preserve the Artist\Album subdirectories? Or is there an additional step to take care of that?
Now here's a question: i figure i'll keep the other two drives as a backup using a USB enclosure, but i will still need to explicitly use the MOVE rather than COPY option in all of the above examples, and then afterwards (--Step 8--), copy all the content back to the external drive, no?
Seems like a lot of copying back and forth, but if i use COPY in steps 1 and 6, it's not going to change the ultimate location of those files in the library, correct?
Thanks for any help!
steve