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I messed something up when I moved my database to a new server with a new name and slightly different paths. I have several drives and I see this issue on all of them. About 1900 of the 2800 files synced to the new storage locations but about 500-1000 did not. I could go in an manually change each file in the database but that seems quite painful. In the picture below, the old path was \\Media_PC1\Movies2\N\.... and the new path is \\Htpc\d\Movies2\N\... But there are other files in the path that did convert with no issues. Is there a way I can tell the database to change any paths with \\Media_PC1\Movies2 to \\Htpc\d\Moves2 Ken File Attachment(s):
 Location1.png (1,399kb) downloaded 20 time(s).
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You don't mention how you got the other Titles to point to the correct new folder locations. I will mention some details about changing the Location, in case you're not aware, or in case someone else reading this thread isn't aware.
Whenever I've needed to move my media folders to a new (and larger) NAS, or have switched to a new My Movie server machine and brought in the existing database, I select one of the Titles whose location needs to be modified. You've shown the Location dialog in your PNG image circled in red. If you set that folder to a new location My Movies Collection Management will automatically find all the other Titles that were in the same old location and adjust them to point to the new Folder locations. BUT...how you do that change is important.
The approved method is to manually navigate to the correct folder using the Location item's built-in file browser. If you edit the name of the Location folder without navigating to it the change will happen ONLY for that one Location and won't cause My Movies to adjust other Title folder locations.
I will mention that this automatic adjustment of folder names by My Movies is not perfect. After allowing My Movies to make all the necessary automatic adjustments, I exit My Movies and restart it. Then I look at the external server credentials listing to see if any old server names are in the list. If they are, then not all items got changed. Which ones? The easiest way I've found to get them all is
to create an XML export of the movie metadata (no images or posters needed) for the full database. I stuff that XML into a good text editor and search for the old folder names, looking for any titles that didn't get automatically adjusted. I manually adjust those, and that finishes the job.
I hope this has been helpful.
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I honestly don't remember how I got the origial files to work. I was fighting upgrade issues, motherboard issues, etc. However,
I shared all of the 3 of the different drive folders with //htpc/d, e, f naming. However, these did not show up on the MyMovies FolderManager when I used it and just selected D:\Movies2\a\movie_name it gives you this big warning about not being able to share the movies etc when using the D:\Movies2\xyz. However, based on your statement about using the Collection File manager, I opened the MyMovies filemanager for one of the movies in the movies editor, and from within there I manually hanged the path from the keyboard to //htpc/d/xyz and selected the correct path from there. After that I got the wonderful message saying 1600+ other movies were on this disk and would like to change the location of these as well!!!! Very happy!! Thanks for the detail method above. Not being able to see the shared folder in the file manager is what messed me up.
Ken
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All of the movies ported easily but I ran in to a an issue I hope there is a more efficient way of fixing than what I am doing. I have 15-20 tv shows each in their own directory and to make matters worse, I have each season of each show in a seperate directory under that. Since I changed the server name and root directory, I currently have to go to each season of each show, change the location of one episode to the new location with the Media Collection file manger which then moves all of the shows for that season. Is there a way to do all of the seasons at once or even better all of the shows at once? Thinking about the SW involved in doing this, it seems like it would be filled with land mines and corner cases but I thought I would be greedy and ask.
Ken
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I just went ahead and moved them manually. It wasn't to bad once I created some copy/paste shortcuts. Brought back memories of when I added my shows after you added TV Series to My Movies. :)
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