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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: GHammer on May 03, 2004, 11:43:46 am
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Through much practise, I have stupidity down to an art.
How can I search for missing files in MC 10?
If a song exists in the database but does not exist on the harddrive, how do I find the entry in MC?
No, I do not want to update the library, that simply tells me that x number of missing entries were removed from the library.
What I want to do is to go to the surces and recreate the missing files.
Thanks!
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I don't think you can, i think you can just see the big red "X"
maybe a usefull option, not sure what you could do with it other than if MC had a Option To Auto Re-Find (Search All Drives For The Missing files)
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I do not think there is any way to do this.
Someone had an issue a while bakc where they accidentally deleted pretty much every file in their library, and was asking if there was a way to 'find' all of the "missing" tracks. i dont' think anything was ever suggested that worked.
The only thing I can think of to suggest is this...
Sometimes MC removes songs from my library (usually when moving files and selecting to NOT overwrite if the file already exists >:(), I update library to remove the 'missing' files (I know you donlt want to do this, I'm just telling you what I do), then re-import from my server. This will remove the incorrect entries, and reimport the songs back into the library. The tags are all intact, it just needs to re-import the tracks to get the library back to 'correct'.
I'm not sure why you have missing tracks, but it they are actually still in the database, this should work. I do NOT know if this has any affect on playcounts or playlists, but it's what I do.
Good luck.
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Ok, guess I'll just scan the library for Xes.
But, it would make a good addition to the smartlist options I think. Otherwise how would I know what needs to be reimported?
Course I could always just not delete things...