Problem moving my music collection to new hard drive

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Problem moving my music collection to new hard drive

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I know that using auto-Organize is the recommended procedure to move a Media Monkey collection to a new hard drive, but I could not do that because the new drive (2TB) and the old drive (500GB) were internal. My spare drive bay contained a disk with my My documents and my e-mail, which I didn't want to remove (although in the end I found that necessary).

My 'old' Media Monkey library was stored at X:\Musicfiles, where X is a 500GB Seagate with a volume label of SG_SATA.

So what I did was copy the library to an external drive (using explorer), install the 2TB drive and copy the library to the 2TB drive. Then I made the label of the 2TB drive the same as the old 500GB disk (SG_SATA) and mapped the 2TB drive to the same drive letter X. Yet MediaMonkey could not find the new/old library on the 2TB SG_SATA drive. I am led to believe Media Monkey uses something other than drive letter and volume label to locate the library. Btw, iTunes and WMP could find the library at X:\Musicfiles.

How does MM find the library?
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I hope this facility is built in to MediaMonkey 4.
This is simply not good enough for people having to do this every time they change drives.

Just my opinion. :wink:
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Thank you very much. Should've asked first.
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dypsis wrote:
I hope this facility is built in to MediaMonkey 4.
This is simply not good enough for people having to do this every time they change drives.

Just my opinion. :wink:
Technically it is already in MM4 (and MM3, and MM2, etc.) using the "Locate moved/missing tracks" feature. It's just unfortunate that it doesn't always work.
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Re: Problem moving my music collection to new hard drive

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nohitter151 wrote:
dypsis wrote:
I hope this facility is built in to MediaMonkey 4.
This is simply not good enough for people having to do this every time they change drives.

Just my opinion. :wink:
Technically it is already in MM4 (and MM3, and MM2, etc.) using the "Locate moved/missing tracks" feature. It's just unfortunate that it doesn't always work.
So, you can move to a new drive with that?
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dypsis wrote: So, you can move to a new drive with that?
Sure, just copy the DB over and then use "Locate moved/missing tracks" on the new PC.
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nohitter151 wrote:
dypsis wrote: So, you can move to a new drive with that?
Sure, just copy the DB over and then use "Locate moved/missing tracks" on the new PC.
And all your history/play count is saved?
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dypsis wrote:
I hope this facility is built in to MediaMonkey 4.
This is simply not good enough for people having to do this every time they change drives.

Just my opinion. :wink:
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dypsis wrote:
nohitter151 wrote:
dypsis wrote: So, you can move to a new drive with that?
Sure, just copy the DB over and then use "Locate moved/missing tracks" on the new PC.
And all your history/play count is saved?
Yes, of course. The whole point is that the same database references have updated file paths.
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OK. I wonder why I have never seen that method advised over the years.
It has always been the Change Drive ID script method advised.
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dypsis wrote:OK. I wonder why I have never seen that method advised over the years.
It has always been the Change Drive ID script method advised.
Because like I said in my first post, it doesn't work all of the time. I'm not sure why.
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Have anyone Heard of Acronis True Image?

I Switched Tens Of HDDs over the years myself, along hundreds for friends and business, with 99.9% success (1 HDD Died During Clone+Resize). So Acronis True Image is I MUST Have app in my collection.
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Peke wrote:Have anyone Heard of Acronis True Image?
Yeah, but with Windows 7, you don't need Acronis True Image anymore.
The system image utility in Windows 7 is superb, in my opinion. And very fast.
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And Do not Clone Partitions(Serial Numbers Too)+Resizing+Fix Lettering,..., Secured Backup Partition, ...

Only Think I was missing From Bootable CD/USB is Advanced Features of Acronis disk Director or Partition Commander Utils from its Boot CD.
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