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Title: Moving Setup To New PC
Post by: harleydude on February 18, 2005, 10:52:59 am

Currently have MC setup on drive d: with music on same drive.  New setup will have MC installed on drive d: with all media files on drive e:.  How will I need to make the current database work with the files in the new location?

Title: Re: Moving Setup To New PC
Post by: Alex B on February 18, 2005, 11:09:40 am

1. Restore an MC library backup from the old setup in the new setup. Your files will show a "red x" icon since MC cannot find them. Don't mind about that.

2. Select all files

3. Use the Find and Replace tool for changing the filename paths:

Tools > Library Tools > Find and Replace... > tick only Filename (path), Find What: D:\, Replace: E:\.

Title: Re: Moving Setup To New PC
Post by: harleydude on February 18, 2005, 11:17:59 pm

 ;D That did it!!! Thanks a lot less painful than I thought it was gonna be.

Rick

Title: Re: Moving Setup To New PC
Post by: Alex B on March 02, 2005, 07:48:03 pm

If anyone else tries this it's good to test it first with a few test files. I forgot to mention that earlier.

Title: Re: Moving Setup To New PC
Post by: EpF on March 02, 2005, 08:16:20 pm

Ha Ha!  Just read that last post after setting MC to work on around 5 and a half thousand files!!!  Ah well - I'm delighted that I found out how to do it, cause I thought I was going to lose all my Library date information by re-importing all the files.  Thanks Alex

 ;)