Peke wrote: ↑Mon Oct 03, 2022 4:22 am
Sync process is straight forward. Power savings when you want sycn available always needs to be disabled. Especially if it is a Desktop PC or Laptop constantly connected to power. Also Wired connection from PC to router is recommended.
My PC is wired to the router.
I mentioned Power Saving interruption just as an example.
In my case the issues came as a result of MM5 crashing while syncing.
I did not experience any file or directory corruption ... only a problem were MM5 didn't know what it had done, and seemed unable to re-initialise itself without the deletion of a lot of transferred files, and requiring a lot of unnecessary re-transfer.
I was testing sync to Dropbox ... so very lengthy sync times due to Internet constraints.
MM5 crashes often. Especially if you are using it do something out of your normal patterns of use.
I do some testing of MM5 ... or also try to replicate some issues that people report here. I experience crashes often.
Previously I had successfully used Google Music Manager to transcode and sync approx 50,000 tracks up to Google Play Music. This took around a month to complete. I stopped and started it periodically to keep within the limits of my Internet plan. The process completed without other intervention.
I lost this data when Google shut down Play Music.
I tested to see if I could achieve the same thing with MM5 syncing to to Dropbox location.
I queued up about just half of my Albums where their AlbumArtist started with A...
MM5 was never able to complete even this task without crashing.
I suppose that I triggered some or all of these crashes while testing or concurrently using MM5.
But the tool is useless if you can't touch MM while it is working on a task that is going to take days to complete.
IMO MM5 sync is just a toy if it cannot handle unexpected interruption.
Peke wrote: ↑Mon Oct 03, 2022 4:22 am
in 99% of cases default Windows settings do not work. At least in my experience.
That seems bogus info. I would think that I have default Windows settings.
I experience minimal issues. I move a lot of data around to my NAS, and across the Internet via FTP and backups to the web.