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Re: Help needed for transfer of playlist from old PC to new PC

Post by peterpoos » Mon Feb 01, 2010 11:48 am

peterpoos wrote:YES YES YES. I have done it. I have managed to transfer my database from my old PC to my new PC. The instructions for Moving MM to a new computer work great.I would like to point out where I went wrong and how to correct it. First of all,I would say go into Control Panel>-System and Security>-Action Center>-Change User Account Control Settings>-Move the slider down to the bottom pointi.e.Never notify.Click OK. Under the instruction of Copying your database from "Moving MM to a new computer" you have to make sure your old PC's MM.DB file is placed in the Documents and Settings folder as per the instructions. The following link tells you how to find the Windows 7 version of the old Documents and Settings folder
http://www.byteblocks.com/post/2009/08/ ... ows-7.aspx
Once you have located the appropriate folder and copied your database into it,just follow the rest of the instructions.When you get to the Move Device Content,a new window appears which has the From and To boxes.Hopefully all your database should appear in the From box.You just click the top button which will include all the items under it.In my case,there was no YES button to hit,so I just hit the enter key and ah presto all my database appeared in Media Monkey.

Just a quick reminder,once your database is in place on your new PC,don't forget to go back to the Control Settings and move the slider back up to its original position.Click on OK and let the computer do the rest.

Re: Help needed for transfer of playlist from old PC to new PC

Post by peterpoos » Mon Feb 01, 2010 9:46 am

YES YES YES. I have done it. I have managed to transfer my database from my old PC to my new PC. The instructions for Moving MM to a new computer work great.I would like to point out where I went wrong and how to correct it. First of all,I would say go into Control Panel>-System and Security>-Action Center>-Change User Account Control Settings>-Move the slider down to the bottom pointi.e.Never notify.Click OK. Under the instruction of Copying your database from "Moving MM to a new computer" you have to make sure your old PC's MM.DB file is placed in the Documents and Settings folder as per the instructions. The following link tells you how to find the Windows 7 version of the old Documents and Settings folder
http://www.byteblocks.com/post/2009/08/ ... ows-7.aspx
Once you have located the appropriate folder and copied your database into it,just follow the rest of the instructions.When you get to the Move Device Content,a new window appears which has the From and To boxes.Hopefully all your database should appear in the From box.You just click the top button which will include all the items under it.In my case,there was no YES button to hit,so I just hit the enter key and ah presto all my database appeared in Media Monkey.

Re: Help needed for transfer of playlist from old PC to new PC

Post by peterpoos » Sun Jan 31, 2010 6:10 am

Thank you for the last bit of information. I did not mention in my previous post was when you click on Move Device Content the box that appears states the following:-
Move Media Monkey's Device Content
from to C: OS


There was no wording in the from box.I am so sorry for not mentioning that.Now looking back,I feel so stupid to think that I thought it was not relevant. With a few fine tweaks,I feel we are getting close to solving my problem.Once again,nohitter151thank you for all your help and patience.

Re: Help needed for transfer of playlist from old PC to new PC

Post by nohitter151 » Sat Jan 30, 2010 11:20 pm

peterpoos wrote:
peterpoos wrote:Great News. I can now see Move Device Content under Tools->Scripts-> Could somebody please confirm what I do next. Do I just click on the OK button or do I click inside the
C:-OS button and then click OK.

Thank you nohitter151 for all your help.Could you please just clarify what I do here in my previous post.I feel I am so close to achieving my object.

you have to choose the new hard drive from the available options. Its different for each user.

Re: Help needed for transfer of playlist from old PC to new PC

Post by peterpoos » Sat Jan 30, 2010 10:55 pm

peterpoos wrote:Great News. I can now see Move Device Content under Tools->Scripts-> Could somebody please confirm what I do next. Do I just click on the OK button or do I click inside the
C:-OS button and then click OK.

Thank you nohitter151 for all your help.Could you please just clarify what I do here in my previous post.I feel I am so close to achieving my object.

Re: Help needed for transfer of playlist from old PC to new PC

Post by nohitter151 » Sat Jan 30, 2010 9:22 pm

peterpoos wrote:Why does the above state Order=46 yet the line to be added states Order=99.
Does this make any difference? What does this line mean?

It doesn't mean anything, you can ignore it.

Re: Help needed for transfer of playlist from old PC to new PC

Post by peterpoos » Sat Jan 30, 2010 7:57 pm

peterpoos wrote:Great News. I can now see Move Device Content under Tools->Scripts-> Could somebody please confirm what I do next. Do I just click on the OK button or do I click inside the
C:-OS button and then click OK.

Just to let future members know if they encounter the same problem,I moved the slider down to the bottom in the UAC and it let me save the file as described.Don't forget to move the file back to the Scripts folder and move the slider contol back up to where you had it.

Re: Help needed for transfer of playlist from old PC to new PC

Post by peterpoos » Sat Jan 30, 2010 7:51 pm

Great News. I can now see Move Device Content under Tools->Scripts-> Could somebody please confirm what I do next. Do I just click on the OK button or do I click inside the
C:-OS button and then click OK.

Re: Help needed for transfer of playlist from old PC to new PC

Post by peterpoos » Sat Jan 30, 2010 7:15 pm

I have just looked through all the posts on this topic and I am getting confused.In the instruction it states to copy the following lines i.e.
[HDDSerial]
FileName=MM_HDDSerial.vbs
ProcName=Change_HDD_Serial
Order=99
DisplayName=Move Device Content
Description=Corrects broken links after exchanged harddrive
Language=VBScript
ScriptType=0

Yet on page 4 of the Moving MM to a new computer thread it states and I quote

When you put the info in the scripts.ini file, you removed the comments right? It looks like this?

[HDDSerial]
FileName=MM_HDDSerial.vbs
ProcName=Change_HDD_Serial
Order=46
DisplayName=Move Device Content
Description=Corrects broken links after exchanged harddrive
Language=VBScript
ScriptType=0

Why does the above state Order=46 yet the line to be added states Order=99.
Does this make any difference? What does this line mean?

Re: Help needed for transfer of playlist from old PC to new PC

Post by nohitter151 » Sat Jan 30, 2010 7:15 pm

peterpoos wrote:Thank you nohitter151 for your last reply. I have started afresh and have got as far as this :-
Open this file with notepad and copy the following lines and paste them onto the end of the file, then save.

Copy these lines into Scripts.ini:

[HDDSerial]
FileName=MM_HDDSerial.vbs
ProcName=Change_HDD_Serial
Order=99
DisplayName=Move Device Content
Description=Corrects broken links after exchanged harddrive
Language=VBScript
ScriptType=0

When I try to save,I get the following:-
Confirm Save As
Scripts.ini already exists
Do you want to replace it
Yes No

When I click on Yes,the following appears:-
Notepad
Access is denied
OK

This is just to confirm that my Scripts is showing as a Configuration Settings Type file. Is this correct?

I am at a lost as to what to do next.This is just to let you know that I am a Administrator.
Look forward to any comments/solutions anybody may have to solve my latest problem.Many thanks once again.

It is again because you do not have write access to the folder, you're being blocked by the UAC. If you move the file to your user folder, you can make the change, then move it back. You could also just disable the UAC (user access control) for Windows Vista or 7 via the control panel but that is up to you since it can lower the security of your PC.

Re: Help needed for transfer of playlist from old PC to new PC

Post by peterpoos » Sat Jan 30, 2010 6:58 pm

Thank you nohitter151 for your last reply. I have started afresh and have got as far as this :-
Open this file with notepad and copy the following lines and paste them onto the end of the file, then save.

Copy these lines into Scripts.ini:

[HDDSerial]
FileName=MM_HDDSerial.vbs
ProcName=Change_HDD_Serial
Order=99
DisplayName=Move Device Content
Description=Corrects broken links after exchanged harddrive
Language=VBScript
ScriptType=0

When I try to save,I get the following:-
Confirm Save As
Scripts.ini already exists
Do you want to replace it
Yes No

When I click on Yes,the following appears:-
Notepad
Access is denied
OK

This is just to confirm that my Scripts is showing as a Configuration Settings Type file. Is this correct?

I am at a lost as to what to do next.This is just to let you know that I am a Administrator.
Look forward to any comments/solutions anybody may have to solve my latest problem.Many thanks once again.

Re: Help needed for transfer of playlist from old PC to new PC

Post by nohitter151 » Sat Jan 30, 2010 9:16 am

peterpoos wrote:Thank you nohitter151 for your comments. This maybe a stupid question to ask but I'm going to ask it anyway. Does all the information posted on this thread work on any version of MM I decide to install on my new PC i.e.my version I have been using is older than the latest version.Sometimes you are happy with a version of a prog and are not keen for whatever reason on the latest version.What I am trying to say is I want to install my old version of MM including all the data/files etc onto my new PC.Will the "Moving MM to a new computer" do this for me.Thanks.

Yes. In fact this really will work best when you move from one computer to another but you install the same version of MM. If you go from MM 3.0 to MM 3.2 on the new PC, there might be problems. Even if you wanted to upgrade, I'd suggest you go from 3.0 to 3.0, then upgrade later to 3.2 on the new PC.

The script (and entire method itself) should work all the way back to around version 2.3 or so.

Re: Help needed for transfer of playlist from old PC to new PC

Post by peterpoos » Sat Jan 30, 2010 5:27 am

Thank you nohitter151 for your comments. This maybe a stupid question to ask but I'm going to ask it anyway. Does all the information posted on this thread work on any version of MM I decide to install on my new PC i.e.my version I have been using is older than the latest version.Sometimes you are happy with a version of a prog and are not keen for whatever reason on the latest version.What I am trying to say is I want to install my old version of MM including all the data/files etc onto my new PC.Will the "Moving MM to a new computer" do this for me.Thanks.

Re: Help needed for transfer of playlist from old PC to new PC

Post by nohitter151 » Fri Jan 29, 2010 6:46 pm

peterpoos wrote:Thank you Bex for the link.I got as far as "Save the file as MM_HDDSerial.vbs" but when I tried to save the file,a message appeared saying "You don't have permission to save in this location.Contact the administrator to obtain permission" Well,you know what I am going to say - I am a Administrator. Any idea what the problem is and how I can solve it. If you google this message you'll see lots of results returned.Many thanks again for replying to my initial topic

Save it to your user folder and then you can move it via windows explorer.

Re: Help needed for transfer of playlist from old PC to new PC

Post by peterpoos » Fri Jan 29, 2010 4:45 pm

Thank you Bex for the link.I got as far as "Save the file as MM_HDDSerial.vbs" but when I tried to save the file,a message appeared saying "You don't have permission to save in this location.Contact the administrator to obtain permission" Well,you know what I am going to say - I am a Administrator. Any idea what the problem is and how I can solve it. If you google this message you'll see lots of results returned.Many thanks again for replying to my initial topic

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