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Title: How do I move entire folders of files in MC 9?
Post by: criptik28 on December 01, 2004, 09:18:34 pm

I'm using Media Center 9.1.319, and absolutely love it - no problems at all!  However, recently I transferred all my mp3s onto my laptop, and wanted to put them into a different directory (a "shared" directory).  All of my mp3s have been categorized into folders based on the artist and album name.  How do I change the file locations in MC, while still keeping the folder names intact?  I know I could just delete my entire collection, use Windows Explorer to move all the folders, and then import them back into MC, but I also wanted to keep the counts of # of plays, etc.

Thanks in advance!

Title: Re:How do I move entire folders of files in MC 9?
Post by: criptik28 on December 01, 2004, 09:37:01 pm

Never mind, just figured it out.  :)  Just had to use the "rename" function instead.  Good stuff!

Title: Re:How do I move entire folders of files in MC 9?
Post by: Sen. Tankerbell on December 04, 2004, 01:26:23 am

 ?
I have what I think is a similar problem, but Rename doesn't seem to be a very easy solution.

I am doing a drastic reorganization of my hard drives after adding some storage space.  I presently have over 12000 songs stored and would like to  "simply" move them and their directory structure to another drive.  It isn't as easy as renaming with a special rule (as far as I can tell).

Basically I just want to change the drive letter in the path of every file stored in my library.  Is there something that I am missing that will help me do this?

Thanks,
Sen. Tankerbell

Title: Re:How do I move entire folders of files in MC 9?
Post by: hit_ny on December 04, 2004, 09:20:34 am

How about a drag n drop with the file tree from within MC ?

Maybe a copy (safer than a Move for such a large amount)

Title: Re:How do I move entire folders of files in MC 9?
Post by: Sen. Tankerbell on December 04, 2004, 11:00:00 pm

Last night I installed the Replace Master plugin from King Sparta's website.  I then added my entire library to Playing Now and used the plugin to replace all the instances of my old drive letter with the new one.  It worked like a charm, MC even cleaned up all the old folders after it was done!

Thanks King Sparta. :)

Thanks hit_ny for sharing your idea. :)

Consume
Senator Tankerbell

Title: Re:How do I move entire folders of files in MC 9?
Post by: KingSparta on December 05, 2004, 08:43:50 am

I knew I Was Good For Something...