Hi all,
I have a somewhat simple task but am a bit mixed-up, so here goes.
I usually listen to music from my main PC, which also happens to have all my music content in place. Recently I decided that I want to be able to carry around at least some of my music - so that I can listen to it when I am in the office etc.
To that end, I bought an external 1TB USB 3.0 drive, installed there JRiver portable and was all set to go...Except, I didn't have a good idea on how to keep content synced from my main rig.
The easiest solution I found was to create a smartlist, including all FLAC content I have. I then configured the external HD as a portable device and asked JRiver in my main rig to keep it in sync. The obvious idea is that after a given time, with new music added in my collection or even music removed, sync will happen iteratively and I won't have to copy over everything from the start.
The main problem that I have, is that it seems JRiver copied some files multiple times (6-9 times). Please keep in mind that in total, the content I copied over is something like 250GB - a substantial size but I believe quite manageable.
Other HW specs (my main rig): i7 3930 @4Ghz, 16GB RAM, plenty of free disk space.
So my questions are: Is my approach sensible? Maybe a better way to keep the portable HD at sync? Maybe a bit of RTFM is in order for me?
Many thanks.
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Topic: Help needed: Syncing a portable installation with my main library (Read 900 times)