by sallenmd87 » Mon Mar 30, 2020 8:31 am
Are you perchance using a portable install.
I've been having similar problems for months. I upgrade every time a new MM4 version is available. I keep MM4 and my entire 2.9 TB library of 240,000 tracks on an external 4TB SSD. My DB file is 1.2 GB. Though paused now due to coronavirus, I travel a lot on business, about 20 trips for 100+ nights per year. I like to have all my music with me. Currently running MM on my home desktop and on a laptop when at the office or on the road. BOth runnling fully-updated Win 10.
MM has been randomly doing the following on both computers: freezing; corrupting the MediaMonkey.ini file, corrupting or deleting tracks and on occasion damaging the database. On start up this morning, it emptied the database of all playlists, etc. When I shut it down last night all was well. On startup this morning—poof! Thankfully, I had backed the data base up last night right after closing MM and before shutting the computer down, because I had made a lot of changes.
I'ave become so paranoid that I have an extreme backup strategy. I back up the database and the ini files every time i close MM. Every evening, I do a differential backup of the entire 4TB drive onto an 8TB external drive using fancy backup software that I bought because MM is so unreliable.
I've contemplated switching to MusicBee, but I have far too much time invested in more than 200 AutoPlaylists that would not be transferrable. Very disappointed at this point.
Are you perchance using a portable install.
I've been having similar problems for months. I upgrade every time a new MM4 version is available. I keep MM4 and my entire 2.9 TB library of 240,000 tracks on an external 4TB SSD. My DB file is 1.2 GB. Though paused now due to coronavirus, I travel a lot on business, about 20 trips for 100+ nights per year. I like to have all my music with me. Currently running MM on my home desktop and on a laptop when at the office or on the road. BOth runnling fully-updated Win 10.
MM has been randomly doing the following on both computers: freezing; corrupting the MediaMonkey.ini file, corrupting or deleting tracks and on occasion damaging the database. On start up this morning, it emptied the database of all playlists, etc. When I shut it down last night all was well. On startup this morning—poof! Thankfully, I had backed the data base up last night right after closing MM and before shutting the computer down, because I had made a lot of changes.
I'ave become so paranoid that I have an extreme backup strategy. I back up the database and the ini files every time i close MM. Every evening, I do a differential backup of the entire 4TB drive onto an 8TB external drive using fancy backup software that I bought because MM is so unreliable.
I've contemplated switching to MusicBee, but I have far too much time invested in more than 200 AutoPlaylists that would not be transferrable. Very disappointed at this point.