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[hakuin]

Dear Forum,

I imported an MC library backup created on my PC into MC on my Mac.  All of the tracks have paths of the form "H:/My Music/xxxxx" which is correct for the PC where the library came from, but needs to be changed to "smb://servername/Disk Name (H)/xxxxxx" for all tracks in MC on my mac.   I looked at using Library Tools > Find and Replace, but don't see an option to find/replace filenames or paths.   I don't want to move the tracks (they are on an HD attached to the PC on my network), I just want MC on the mac to be able to point correctly to the tracks.   How do I do this?

Thanks,
Lee

[Y. G. Bae]

Dear Lee,

Select all the albums and try using the Find & Replace feature at 'Rename, Move, & Copy Files' at 'Library Tools' , setting 'Find What' to "H:/My Music/" and 'Replace With' to "smb://servername/Disk Name (H)/".

Best regards,
Y. G.

[hakuin]

Thanks.  I didn't realize that Find and Replace was also a feature within "Rename, Move & Copy".  In the end, the Find and Replace didn't work (I think because of the reverse slashes), but what did work is I selected the "Directories" option within "Rename, Move & Copy" and set the Base Path to "/Volumes/DISKNAME (H)/My Music/" and the Rule to match what rule was already being used for the tracks, and I chose "Update database to point to new location" option.  It worked perfectly, changing 55,000 tracks within a few seconds.

[Y. G. Bae]

Hello Lee,

Good for you! Library Tools are really powerful, and they are the features I like about JRiver MC. Have fun listening music!

Best regards,
Y. G.