by freewheelin' frankie » Fri Feb 09, 2024 2:24 pm
I'm in the process of moving MMW5 Gold from an old PC with Windows 10 to a new one with Windows 11. I've successfully downloaded and installed MMW5 to the new PC and activated the license for Gold, and switched off drive scanning for media. But I can't make head or tail of the instructions for moving the database file etc.
The MP3s were in the inboard hard drive in the old PC (D:\My Music\...), they are now on an external one which coincidentally has the same drive letter D as where they were before. Flacs, meanwhile, were already in the same external drive (as F:\flacs\...) where the MP3s have now joined them. This means that the flacs are in the same drive as previously but its drive letter has changed and the MP3s are in a different drive but with their old drive letter.
I managed to locate the .ini, .db and .JSON files in the old PC (not where I expected to find them) and have backed them up to an external drive. But I find the instructions for the default locations they should go to in the new PC incomprehensible, I suspect because there is wide latitude for where %APPDATA% might be, or what the % signs mean; I can't find an appdata folder anywhere. MediaMonkey is installed in C:\Program Files (x86)\Media Monkey 5.
Likewise I don't really understand whether, and how, I ought to edit the .ini file - or any other files, especially given the media used to be in two different drives.
I'm in the process of moving MMW5 Gold from an old PC with Windows 10 to a new one with Windows 11. I've successfully downloaded and installed MMW5 to the new PC and activated the license for Gold, and switched off drive scanning for media. But I can't make head or tail of the instructions for moving the database file etc.
The MP3s were in the inboard hard drive in the old PC (D:\My Music\...), they are now on an external one which coincidentally has the same drive letter D as where they were before. Flacs, meanwhile, were already in the same external drive (as F:\flacs\...) where the MP3s have now joined them. This means that the flacs are in the same drive as previously but its drive letter has changed and the MP3s are in a different drive but with their old drive letter.
I managed to locate the .ini, .db and .JSON files in the old PC (not where I expected to find them) and have backed them up to an external drive. But I find the instructions for the default locations they should go to in the new PC incomprehensible, I suspect because there is wide latitude for where %APPDATA% might be, or what the % signs mean; I can't find an appdata folder anywhere. MediaMonkey is installed in C:\Program Files (x86)\Media Monkey 5.
Likewise I don't really understand whether, and how, I ought to edit the .ini file - or any other files, especially given the media used to be in two different drives.