Problem moving my music collection to new hard drive

[grillmeister7]

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?

[Lowlander]

By DriveID, see: http://www.mediamonkey.com/wiki/index.p ... w_computer

[dypsis]

By DriveID, see: http://www.mediamonkey.com/wiki/index.p ... w_computer

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.

[grillmeister7]

Thank you very much. Should've asked first.

[nohitter151]

By DriveID, see: http://www.mediamonkey.com/wiki/index.p ... w_computer

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.

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.

[dypsis]

By DriveID, see: http://www.mediamonkey.com/wiki/index.p ... w_computer

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.

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?

[nohitter151]

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.

[dypsis]

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?

[nynaevelan]

By DriveID, see: http://www.mediamonkey.com/wiki/index.p ... w_computer

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.

I agree 100000000000%.

[nohitter151]

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.

[dypsis]

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.

[nohitter151]

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.

[Peke]

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.

[dypsis]

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.

[Peke]

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.