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[Marty3d]

Hi!

I'm about to move my songs to a new disk but I want to keep the file structure intact. Now the are in D:\My Music\ and I want to move them to F:\My Music\ instead.

What I noticed (I HAVE tried) was that if I'm only changing base directory, all files end up in that directory, without the rest of the folder structure, ie 'Albums\Depeche Mode' (it becomes 'F:\My Music\Depeche Mode - Somebody').

I don't want to set the rule to anything, just change D: to F: ... Is this possible without re-importing the files?

Grateful for your help and to JRiver for the most valuable player/manager around!

[lise]

I know one way of doing it.  From the properties menu, go to Tools and select Find & Replace.  Replace D:\ for F:\.  Someone else might suggest an easier way.

[Marty3d]

Thanks lise! That solved my problems, on the test files anyway...In progress of moving 4500|PLS| files now...let's see if it's gonna work

[Marty3d]

Hm....not good...

After I moved all my files, one great problem occured! My Album art didn't update!!!
They were all in each album's folder and when I checked, the old path were still there

Any suggestions besides doing it all over again?

[Matt]

That's one of the reasons why we encourage people to keep their album art in the specified MJ directory, instead of next to the files.  Any chance you could make that change?

Take care.

-Matt

[Callithumpian]

Matt
Is relative pathing for album art on the V9 agenda.
If not, can I suggest that it should be?

[Marty3d]

I'd like that too! Relative paths rocks! Or a (small?) implementation that checks album art as well as file locations in Find&Replace...

There is another reason for me not to have the images in a single directory, namely that in XP you can view folders as thumbnails, which makes it somewhat nicer to view the album folders in the explorer