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[nitephlight]

same issue here, number of plays is always suspiciously low but didn't pay heed till i had had to start re rating items i could have sworn were done (file I've had for years).

i take very regular backups, short of restoring, How would i selectively update the current library where the backup copy has > plays or tags?

so i have a very healthy collection of backups from which i need to selectively update my current database that was born out of a failed hardrive, a general lack of knowledge about how sidecars and tagging works (better believe im all over that after a couple of years of MC lol). that being said, the true representation of my statistics lies across a number of library backups- im fairly certain the Sync library will cause some unintentional overwriting of newer but *incomplete tag data.. my thought is load the backup in a separate environment, force the creation of a historical sidecar by assigning every media file a temporary Keyword, then do a scripted merge of xml files, selectively adding or combining values for fields like rating, keyword, number of plays / skips (though i now read that these may not be changeable currently). once the xml is up to date, i can then update the new library FROM sidecar... or if there is totally a built in feature that would handle something like this, i'd love to hear about it =)



thanks a ton

[MrC]

Maybe this helps:

   http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=78899.msg542397#msg542397

[nitephlight]

rofl, you WOULD be to the rescue ;-) your the man, thanks a billion will try this out with a couple of dummy dbs first, definately more elegant than my solution.

thanks again, will report back