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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: kaiynne on September 10, 2004, 11:52:22 pm

Title: User defined fields in MC11
Post by: kaiynne on September 10, 2004, 11:52:22 pm

I am currently using MC10 but would like to upgrade to version 11 the only problem I am having is with my user defined fields.  previously in version 10 when I import a file that has a user defined field stored in tag, it will automatically add that to the fields view.  In MC11 that is not happening and when I add that field manually it is not recognizing the files through that field.  I will keep working on this but I am pretty sure that it should be adding the user defined fields from my files as MC10 does this.

Thanks,
Kain

Title: Re:User defined fields in MC11
Post by: CDvd on September 11, 2004, 12:25:55 am

I don't know if that's your problem but I think that if you imported the files before creating your custom fields in MC11, it will not read your custom tags.
You have to select your files and do a "Library tools / Update library from tags".
This will force MC to read again the tags and if the custom fields are correctly set, MC will read them and update the library.

I hope it's help,
David.

Title: Re:User defined fields in MC11
Post by: kaiynne on September 11, 2004, 01:14:49 am

Thanks for the reply david I gave it a try but it still doesn't add the new user fields or see the info that should be stored in the tags.

Not sure is this is a bug or what since I haven't tried it with any other version of MC11.

Title: Re:User defined fields in MC11
Post by: Matt on September 11, 2004, 07:37:09 am

Importing files never creates fields.

Your best bet is to just give MC 11 a copy of your MC 10 database so you don't lose anything.  Otherwise, create fields by the same name in your new MC 11 database.

Title: Re:User defined fields in MC11
Post by: kaiynne on September 11, 2004, 02:29:36 pm

So what would that entail exactly.  Is it possible to do a restore of a DB created in MC10 in MC11?  I guess i will find out in a second.

thanks matt

Title: Re:User defined fields in MC11
Post by: kaiynne on September 11, 2004, 02:37:14 pm

Worked perfectly, If I had known it would have been that easy I would have upgraded to MC 11 much sooner.  I may be stupid but the impression i got from the "you will lose all your settings" comments in the beta threads is that you would have to redo everything.  Not sure if anyone else has/had that impression, but I know that if you had said just backup and restore your library and you will be ready to go, I would have done it much sooner.

Thanks again matt.

Title: Re:User defined fields in MC11
Post by: kaiynne on September 11, 2004, 02:41:27 pm

Just purchased the upgrade.  Thanks guys I am loving MC11 allready.