Playlist empty after folder removed from library

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Pililac
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Playlist empty after folder removed from library

Post by Pililac »

My precious years old playlists are empty! Is the data somewhere stored?

I have two music folders, the second containing all the music from the first and much more. So I wanted to remove the first folder and then replace the outdated, grayed-out tracks in the playlists with their duplicates in the new directory. That went horribly wrong. All tracks from my playlists that are located in the old library vanished, no hint they ever existed. Why did they disappear? I expected them to be greyed out. Is there any way to restore them?

I only removed the first folder from the library within MM by right-clicking and selecting "Remove" from the directory tree, as suggested in the thread linked below. No data was touched.
Lowlander wrote:You can use the Location sub-node (eg. Music > Location) and right click on folders to Remove them.
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Re: Playlist empty after folder removed from library

Post by Lowlander »

When you remove files from MediaMonkey they're also removed from the Playlists in MediaMonkey.

Unless you have exported the Playlists or have a backup of the database file there is no method to recover.
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