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Title: Upgrade and keeping settings, play lists etc.
Post by: smittyj01 on April 16, 2018, 05:17:40 pm

Hello,

I am wondering if there is an easy way to keep all my settings for MC23 when I install MC24?  I went to /Users/js/Library/Application Support/J River/Media Center 23 and copied the Library folder to /Users/js/Library/Application Support/J River/Media Center 24.  I started up MC24 and so far, everything seems intact.

Did I break something by doing this or is it perfectly acceptable way to do the upgrade?

Comments?

Title: Re: Upgrade and keeping settings, play lists etc.
Post by: JimH on April 16, 2018, 05:39:29 pm

Don't do anything manually.  MC will find and copy your library and settings.

Title: Re: Upgrade and keeping settings, play lists etc.
Post by: aliciaviola on April 17, 2018, 01:05:25 am

But not automatically! I had to save my MC 23 library and to import it to MC 24.

Title: Re: Upgrade and keeping settings, play lists etc.
Post by: bob on April 17, 2018, 02:54:32 pm

Quote from: smittyj01 on April 16, 2018, 05:17:40 pm

Hello,

I am wondering if there is an easy way to keep all my settings for MC23 when I install MC24?  I went to /Users/js/Library/Application Support/J River/Media Center 23 and copied the Library folder to /Users/js/Library/Application Support/J River/Media Center 24.  I started up MC24 and so far, everything seems intact.

Did I break something by doing this or is it perfectly acceptable way to do the upgrade?

Comments?

That will work.
Also you can restore a MC23 backup however thumbnails will be rebuilt in that case.

Title: Re: Upgrade and keeping settings, play lists etc.
Post by: smittyj01 on April 17, 2018, 04:08:31 pm

Automatic was not a good option.  It didn't find my previous install at all.  It imported 10s of thousands of photos I didn't want imported, didn't find my music on other drives.  The backup and restore method did seem to work nicely.

Is a new version suppose to check for previous versions on first run and prompt you to import from old or start fresh?

J

Title: Re: Upgrade and keeping settings, play lists etc.
Post by: KBoz on April 20, 2018, 12:15:43 pm

Agreed.  Automatic processing didn't find my previous libraries and import them.