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Title: Gonna Repartition my HD
Post by: richkl on June 27, 2003, 07:06:08 am

I need to repartition my HD.  It will involve changing drive letters of partitions containing my music- combining two smaller partitions into one larger one.  

There is a method to my madness.   I really need to do this.  

How will this effect my media library?  Will all the music have to be reimported? Will I loose all the artist/playlist associations I have created?  I suppose I will find out all this stuff soon enough anyway but maybe some of you more experienced MJ users have some advice.
Thanks,
Richard

Title: Re: Gonna Repartition my HD
Post by: KingSparta on June 27, 2003, 08:07:23 am

>> How will this effect my media library?
it will not find the files

>> Will all the music have to be reimported?
I would

>> Will I loose all the artist/playlist associations
>> I have created?
playlists, Yes

I don't remember if MJ8 has a find and replace but if it does you can lets say find c:\ replace with new drive letter d:\

Title: Re: Gonna Repartition my HD
Post by: Roar on June 29, 2003, 10:55:07 am

Provided that you don't make complicated changes to
where you store your music files on the new partitions,
there is no need to re-import files or playlists.

When you have moved the files you can change MJ's
idea of where they are stored from within the media
file properties dialog.

• Select all the files in Media Library which have been
  moved (e.g. by using the "File Location" view).
  
• Choose File Properties from the right-click menu
  
• Choose Find & Replace from the Tools menu in the
  Media File Properties dialog window
  
• Select the Location tick-box
  
• Fill out the Find What and Replace fields with the old
  and new path to your media library; if you e.g. moved
  the files from "C:\Music" to "D:\Jukebox" you would
  replace C:\Music with D:\Jukebox
  
• Enjoy your music!
  

Regards,
- Roar

Title: Re: Gonna Repartition my HD
Post by: richkl on June 30, 2003, 04:14:00 pm

Thanks guys,
Between King Sparta and Roar I looked for  the file find in Media Jukebox and couldn't find it.  I figured I was S.O.L. and I'm gonna have to do this the hard way.

I cleared the media library and imported all the music from the new partition I had moved them into.  Voila!  MJ caused the original library to reappear with all the arranging I had created in a couple of years intact.  All I lost was the Playlists which is easy to redo.

I just upgraded to WinXP with a clean install on a new, bigger HD and everything is a lot better.
Richard