I tried out what you said and it seems to work fine, although I can't tell just right now. Another thing that just came to mind is, why don't I always use the portable version. I could even put it onto the external drive, so it wouldn't matter where I'd plug in my music, it would always work and even if I wipe my computer or anything happens, all is still good with my music library.
after reading some postes about the portable version, there doesn't seem to be any downside.

Cool. I think this Post can be seen as solved/closed. Thanks a lot

Aviotes wrote:First, thank you for reading through my text, it's realy not that short ^^
Back to topic, I thought it would come to this. when that, it will just delete the MediaMonkey Database? Could I try out how that would affect my library by pluging in my Music Harddrive (external, USB) into my laptop on which I've never installed MediaMonkey? Or does MediaMonkey save some hidden files in the music folders?
I read through the Wiki already, I just don't to rush and mess it up even more

It won't delete the database, but it will basically wipe it clean.

If you want to see how it would affect your library, easiest way would be to re-install MM but as a "Portable installation" to a new folder (not to the same location as your previous one). It will act like a clean installation and when you're done with it you could just delete the folder where it was installed to fully uninstall it.

First, thank you for reading through my text, it's realy not that short ^^
Back to topic, I thought it would come to this. when that, it will just delete the MediaMonkey Database? Could I try out how that would affect my library by pluging in my Music Harddrive (external, USB) into my laptop on which I've never installed MediaMonkey? Or does MediaMonkey save some hidden files in the music folders?
I read through the Wiki already, I just don't to rush and mess it up even more

Easiest way to start over is File > Clear database. You will have to confirm by typing YES in all caps.

Hello,

First, what I did:
I moved my Music Collection from Harddrive D/ to harddrive E/. I did this the nonchalant way. In my the Windows Explorer with Media Monkey Closed.
Obviously this led to many problems. I should have followed the guide provided in this very forum. Next time, I will.
When I restarted MediaMonkey everything was greyed out and playlists empty. Since I've got Media Monkey Gold I used the "locate moved/missing files" tool. That didn't work well. It found some but not all of them, even when I chose the exact new Location.
Stupid as I am, as a solution, I just added the new locations to the library and deleted the remaining greyed out files.

First Problem:
Now most of my Playlists are just empty. I assume this happened when I deleted the greyed out files.
This is to be expected, but! I have most of my playlists saved in a Playlist Folder as m3u files, directly in my Music Folder. Every Song is written in a relative, not absolute path. So if I import them, they should be under the node "Imported m3u Playlists" and work. But they don't. There is no such node, they just appear in the imported Playlistnode, but most of them are empty. When I look at the m3u files with the Windows Editor all the (relative)paths are still there. When I right click the m3us and click on "open with MediaMonkey" the Play well. But under imported Playlists, they are empty.

Second Problem:
I had other Playlists just in MediaMonkey, not in a separet Folder. So these playlists are just in the MediaMonkey Database. I understand that my "delete all greyed out itemes" action caused some harm. But here I have another Problem. When I click on the playlist (in Mediamonkey) some songs are shown correctly. Probably the ones the "locate moved/missing files" tool found. They have the correct Title, Artists, Albums and Ratings. But when click on them, a totaly different Song is played. Does this mean the playlist is messed up or also some songs in my library?

What I want:
clearly a solution that compensates for my stupidity But since that's not gonna happen, I'm even happy about a tutorial on how to best wipe my whole MediaMonkey Database and start anew with everything.

thx ahead for any suggestions. If some piece of information is missing or something is unclear just ask.

Aviotes

tl;dr:
I moved my Music Collection from one drive to another (with Windows Explorer, not MediaMonkey).
Now everythings messed up, especialy playlists. Is there an easy solution?