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More => Old Versions => Media Jukebox => Topic started by: dave63 on February 07, 2002, 06:11:41 pm

Title: Seeking Advice-Saving Before System Maintenance
Post by: dave63 on February 07, 2002, 06:11:41 pm

Has anyone any words of advice for the next time I "clean up" my system. I recently switched hard drives, partitioned and formatted, but ended up putting my audio files on a different drive letter. I had backed up MJ library & then restored after rebuilding my system. Problem was, with a different drive letter assignment, I couldn't figure out how to have all of my categories etc. restored.  I seem to remember someone posting that v8.x allowed for this, but since I'm not a beta tester I passed on this option. Besides, the last time I tried one of the v8's, "buy" wasn't working (and I really just don't like vegetable juice anyway).

Anyway, I'm now about 1/3 of the way through my library, and I really don't want to go through this whole f%@#ing process again!

Any useable suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

V7.2.280
W2K pro
Athlon 650mhz

Title: RE:Seeking Advice-Saving Before System Maintenance
Post by: Doof on February 07, 2002, 06:43:49 pm

Could you copy all of the files back into their original location and then use MJ to move them back to where you want them now?

Title: RE:Seeking Advice-Saving Before System Maintenance
Post by: gateley on February 08, 2002, 06:22:27 am

I've been faced with this a couple of times, and I just copied the database files to unix, and used Emacs to replace the drive letter (sed,awk,vi will also work).

j

Title: RE:Seeking Advice-Saving Before System Maintenance
Post by: Matt on February 08, 2002, 09:14:02 am

Version 8 is really the only good answer.

File Properties->Tools->Find & Replace (Location: c:\ with f:\, etc.)

-Matt