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jagdriver

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Lost my MC15 playlists
« on: February 21, 2012, 02:29:22 pm »

I updated from MC15 to MC17 over the weekend. I had hoped that 17 would pickup my existing playlists, but no.

I cannot launch 15 again without encountering this err msg: "Unable to register controls. Please run as a power user." Well, not only am I a PU, but I'm on as the sysadmin.

Are the playlists located somewhere in the MC15 subfolder hierarchy so that I can just manually import them into MC17?
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JimH

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Re: Lost my MC15 playlists
« Reply #1 on: February 21, 2012, 02:32:28 pm »

Try restoring a backup from MC15.

Hopefully, you didn't install MC17 in the same location as MC15.
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jagdriver

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Re: Lost my MC15 playlists
« Reply #2 on: February 21, 2012, 03:14:41 pm »

Nope. It's got its own folder structure.

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jagdriver

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Re: Lost my MC15 playlists
« Reply #3 on: February 21, 2012, 05:31:43 pm »

I didn't back up MC15. Now what?

Also, since I can't run MC15 at this point, how do I perform a restore?
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Re: Lost my MC15 playlists
« Reply #4 on: February 21, 2012, 05:44:21 pm »

MC makes them automatically.  They will be in a directory something like this:

C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\J River\Media Center 15\Library Backups

They have a .zip extension so you could search for that from Explorer.
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jagdriver

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Re: Lost my MC15 playlists
« Reply #5 on: February 21, 2012, 05:48:34 pm »

Once I locate the latest ZIP, how do I restore MC15? I checked the wiki and didn't see any entries there pertaining to backup or restore.

Or are the MC15 playlists located within that ZIP and I can simply import them from there into MC17?
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Re: Lost my MC15 playlists
« Reply #6 on: February 21, 2012, 05:50:07 pm »

File/Library/Restore.
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jagdriver

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Re: Lost my MC15 playlists
« Reply #7 on: February 22, 2012, 02:43:47 pm »

Thanks... it worked!
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