by Batalanto! » Sun Jul 26, 2015 9:27 pm
Dear All...Spent several days going through my library of music: deleted songs I didn't like, updated album art, corrected file path, file name, details, moved them to proper albums and just about everything involved in having a very well-managed collection. THEN, thinking I was deleting music files on an external hard drive, I accidentally deleted all the music files on my actual laptop instead. All my music was located under a file appropriately titled "Music". The recovery software I have used, rather than simply identifying that "Music" file by name and then listing all the subfiles (albums) beneath it, has results listed in a very scattered list. First question: have any of you worked with recovery software for your music that has been really easy and concise in its results?
Fortunately,I did indeed have all my music backed up to Google music...so to speak. It was all the music I had in my library but prior to all the renaming, tagging, moving, etc I spent hours doing before the deletion. Question #2. Media Monkey still lists the library/music as it was before the deletion. To make things easier and to save time, is there a way that I can use Media Monkey to change the current state of my music to match the way it was previously organized? So, rather than running a fresh scan of music and starting from scratch, the recovered music library would be changed to match the MM configurations? I know there is a "find missing tracks tool" that I could use, but I'm not sure what that would do, beyond relocating the files previously deleted.
What MM features/general strategies can I use to match my recovered files to the way they were and are still represented when I open my library on MM? (Of course, if I literally try to play the songs on MM, it can't find the file and starts speeding down the list of tunes to find something it can. It's kind of a "ghost image" of the great shape I had things in. Thanks for taking the time to read this. I'd really value your help. Best! -Joher
Dear All...Spent several days going through my library of music: deleted songs I didn't like, updated album art, corrected file path, file name, details, moved them to proper albums and just about everything involved in having a very well-managed collection. THEN, thinking I was deleting music files on an [i]external[/i] hard drive, I accidentally deleted all the music files on my [i]actual laptop[/i] instead. All my music was located under a file appropriately titled "Music". The recovery software I have used, rather than simply identifying that "Music" file by name and then listing all the subfiles (albums) beneath it, has results listed in a very scattered list. First question: have any of you worked with recovery software for your music that has been really easy and concise in its results?
Fortunately,I did indeed have all my music backed up to Google music...so to speak. It was all the music I had in my library but [i]prior to all the renaming, tagging, moving, etc I spent hours doing [u]before[/u] the deletion.[/i] Question #2. Media Monkey [u]still lists the library/music as it was before the deletion.[/u] To make things easier and to save time, [b]is there a way that I can use Media Monkey to change the current state of my music to match the way it was previously organized?[/b] So, rather than running a fresh scan of music and starting from scratch, the recovered music library would be changed to match the MM configurations? I know there is a "find missing tracks tool" that I could use, but I'm not sure what that would do, beyond relocating the files previously deleted.
What MM features/general strategies can I use to match my recovered files to the way they were and are [i]still[/i] represented when I open my library on MM? (Of course, if I literally try to play the songs on MM, it can't find the file and starts speeding down the list of tunes to find something it can. It's kind of a "ghost image" of the great shape I had things in. Thanks for taking the time to read this. I'd really value your help. Best! -Joher