by Rob_S » Fri Apr 26, 2024 10:42 am
The rescan should find all the files that actually exist in your new PC in any of the paths that are shown. Does the number of tracks in the database match the number of music files you have??
Do you have duplicate files, ie more files in the database that on the PC? If so you can check if it is any particular path that always fails, and then simply delete from database all the files with that path.
So, the big question now is, do your playlists work?? If so you are one of the more persistent or more lucky ones!!! If not, can you live with re-creating them?? The difficulty with playlists is that they by definition refer to a particular database entry, and if the location of that database entry changes, the playlist will no longer work.
It seems this issue of transferring database from one computer to the next is one of the most troublesome areas of Mediamonkey, and I know they are beginning to acknowledge that.
In theory if you follow the steps exactly, and use the exact same path for ALL tracks on the new PC, it can work and you can get your playlists back.
However, if you search this forum for "Reassign drive" you will see how often this has been a problem for users with unfortunately very many different circumstances being the cause, thus making it hard to fix.
The rescan should find all the files that actually exist in your new PC in any of the paths that are shown. Does the number of tracks in the database match the number of music files you have??
Do you have duplicate files, ie more files in the database that on the PC? If so you can check if it is any particular path that always fails, and then simply delete from database all the files with that path.
So, the big question now is, do your playlists work?? If so you are one of the more persistent or more lucky ones!!! If not, can you live with re-creating them?? The difficulty with playlists is that they by definition refer to a particular database entry, and if the location of that database entry changes, the playlist will no longer work.
It seems this issue of transferring database from one computer to the next is one of the most troublesome areas of Mediamonkey, and I know they are beginning to acknowledge that.
In theory if you follow the steps exactly, and use the exact same path for ALL tracks on the new PC, it can work and you can get your playlists back.
However, if you search this forum for "Reassign drive" you will see how often this has been a problem for users with unfortunately very many different circumstances being the cause, thus making it hard to fix.