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Author Topic: is there a way to open two different librarys from the desktop?  (Read 1150 times)

gappie

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i have multiple instances enabled. and made two shortcuts with MC15.exe /Library somediflib.
the problem is that this works when no library is running, but when one is running hitting the shortcut will change the library from the already running mc.

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gappie

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Re: is there a way to open two different librarys from the desktop?
« Reply #1 on: August 22, 2010, 06:24:18 pm »

i have multiple instances enabled. and made two shortcuts with MC15.exe /Library somediflib.
the problem is that this works when no library is running, but when one is running hitting the shortcut will change the library from the already running mc.

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gab
well. to answer myself..install mc 14 besides 15 and its a breeze when you have 2 librarys.. not only for this reason...

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Re: is there a way to open two different librarys from the desktop?
« Reply #2 on: September 30, 2010, 04:30:06 pm »

I would love to know that answer to this. Given that there is an option to open two instances of MC, then surely it is precisely to deal with 2 libraries. And yet as Gappie notes, when you have 2 shortcuts (one for each library) selecting the 2nd after the first just changes the librarie.

How can we run 2 instances at once?
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Re: is there a way to open two different librarys from the desktop?
« Reply #3 on: September 30, 2010, 08:00:56 pm »

I use a portable install most often for this.
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Re: is there a way to open two different librarys from the desktop?
« Reply #4 on: September 30, 2010, 09:04:23 pm »

That's not an option for me.  I work with my documents library on my laptop (it's open all the time) and I listen to music by opening the library on my htpc via media server.

The truth is that I have always just used the one library for everything on my laptop. Whenever we would listen to music in the living room, I would copy the database over to the htpc. But I always sync in one direction only, ie from the laptop (where I do all my tagging) to the htpc for listening. So I figured I would take advantage of media server and load the htpc library for music, thereby maintaining all the last played info and keep a Docs library on my laptop. Thing is I'm in the woodshop all day where I need my Docs library open all day, and I need to also access the media server library for tunes.  If I can't open both libraries at the same time then I will have to go back to keeping just the one library. 
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