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More => Old Versions => Media Center 12 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: JONCAT on July 08, 2008, 08:58:35 am
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Why does Find & Replace run on filename for changing location from I:\ to J:\ try to copy files via Explorer?
This is a simple file renaming done in MC library. The library was intact during rename meaning that I only copied the files, so the library wasn't missing the files in question.
Is this by design?
Now I have an explorer prompt that won't let me say No or Yes to all for 1000K files!
I copied an entire folder with Explorer, and then ran find & Replace rather than re-import. This used to work fine; the fields would be changed and simply point to the new location.
Maybe I should have used MC, to move/copy the folder in the first place but this is just plain confusing.
DC
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If you change the filename field in Media Center, it moves the physical disk file.
The "Rename, Move, & Copy Files" tool gives you more flexible options if you need them (including find and replace).
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A few comments:
Changing location is best done with the 'new' copy, move, rename tool (not sure whether I got it in the right order.) It's really what it's designed for.
Having been bitten a couple of times by a problem during an MC internal move, I often just rename the files' location with the tool, and do the move within Windows Explorer. That way I know I won't lose any tag info.
I've read that you can sometimes force a yes/no to all by holding the shift key. I may be going senile, and that might be a Macintosh-specific trick from the old days!
EDIT: So I got the tool's name completely in reverse order. :)
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Okay thanks, I just haven't done this since it changed so I was a bit confused.
DC