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Media Center unable to play a file
« on: July 04, 2010, 11:33:57 am »

Please make sure that the path to the media library points to the right location and that the files are not being filtered?

I just bought this as an upgrade, but this Is being used on another Win 7 Install as the other one died with the harddrive. I did manage to pull the files from the old Media center and they worked fine for a few days to a week but all of a sudden I'm getting the error above?

Why?
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Re: Media Center unalbe to play any files?
« Reply #1 on: July 04, 2010, 11:37:24 am »

If you hover the mouse over any file, it will show you its location.  Try this and see if the file exists in that location.
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Re: Media Center unable to play a file
« Reply #2 on: July 04, 2010, 12:00:32 pm »

Ahh crap! It's pointing to the old drive. How do I pull the files themselves?

O.K., got the files moved to C, but now I have double files. Is there and easy way to remove these?
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Re: Media Center unable to play a file
« Reply #3 on: July 04, 2010, 12:24:14 pm »

Try a test where you right click on a file and use the rename, move... comand under library tools.  If you change the path using the "directories" check box and it works (and now points to the correct drive), you can then use this command on your entire library so the library points to the correct drive.
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Re: Media Center unable to play a file
« Reply #4 on: July 04, 2010, 12:37:32 pm »

If you select a few files and then filter for your old drive in the search window (by typing "F:" for example -- no quotes), you should see only your "wrong" files and can delete them.

Go slowly and double check, whatever you do.
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Re: Media Center unable to play a file
« Reply #5 on: July 04, 2010, 01:28:47 pm »

Thanks Jim  ;D
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