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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 19 for Windows => Topic started by: bricc on March 18, 2014, 07:29:27 am
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Hello,
Downloaded the trial version of MC 19 a week ago and after some playing around, still have not been able to figure out how to get the main library off the boot drive and onto a local HDD?
Any suggestions?
Vic
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By your term "Library" do you mean (what I'll call):
1. Big-L Library: MC's database
2. Little-l library: your media files on disk
For #1, the Library Manager can clone your existing Library over to a new one, and you can put it wherever you want.
For #2, the Library Tools > Rename, Move, and Copy tool is for exactly this.
Please note that it is always best to keep the Big-L Library (MC's database) on a fast, internal disk (an SSD if possible) (http://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Troubleshooting_Network_and_Slow_Storage). It isn't large, so storage space isn't a concern, and performance is directly related to the speed (random IO, not sustained) with which you can access the Library.
Media files, of course, can be shuffled off to any volume you want, including slow internal media disks, NAS volumes, network drives, or external storage (or a combination of all of the above). MC doesn't care where the media files themselves are stored.