Originally I added X:\Video\ to my import rules (which was also assigned as the "My Videos" folder) and Media Center automatically detected that this location was the "My Videos" folder. This folder has been working fine for most of the time I've been using MC19.
What I did not notice earlier this evening, was that when I changed the folders as a result of troubleshooting this issue, Media Center had changed my import rule from pointing at X:\Video\ to C:\…Video\ automatically when I changed the location for "My Videos".
So when I changed the auto-import rule back to X:\Video\ it worked again (likely as a result of being a new folder)
Now I totally get it. That's actually fairly cool. It is being helpful.
1. You added the X:\ drive folder to Auto-Import, everything is cool.
2. You moved your system's Environment.SpecialFolder.MyVideos directory to match this folder at some point (that's C#-speak, but the C++ version of this)
3. When you closed MC (or, I suppose, the next time you ran it), it saw that X:\Video was now == Environment.SpecialFolder.MyVideos, so it reassigned itself to %USERPROFILE%\Videos
That way:
1. You have a user who gets a new bigger hard drive, so they plug it in and it gets a new drive letter.
2. Then, they open Windows Explorer (after googling "
how to move my music folder windows") and
do this (or
this guys regurgitation of the same).
3. That moves their "My Music" and "My Videos" folders via the
Windows way (where it then asks you if you want to move everything to the new location). They say yes.
4. Normally, their links in the Library would all be broken. But in this situation, it Just Works. Initially they
will all be broken (because they did it externally from MC), but
Auto-Import will fix the broken links (retaining all metatadata and playlists and stuff)
as long as it is monitoring the new folder.
Yeah, that makes sense, and is actually a pretty nice touch.
You moved the special folder in Windows, and
didn't want it to move your files (said no to that prompt, certainly, or did it another way). So, for you, it just messed you up!