Copy to new drive?

[doane2u]

MM is on a 1T SATA physical HD and I just bought a 1T SS NVMe M.2 that I am going to install to replace the old physical drive, because... I am floored over the speed of these M.2 drives. So I want to copy all the files on the old physical drive over to the new SS drive. What is the easiest and fastest way to move all my MM music files, along with all the tags, images, ratings, all data base info over to the new SS drive? I understand that MM uses drive ID and not the drive letter to identify the location, etc.
Thank you.

[doane2u]

BTW, I just updated to the new MM Gold 5 version and I love it!

[Lowlander]

Easiest is using MediaMonkey: https://www.mediamonkey.com/wiki/WebHel ... enames/5.0

If you want to do it outside of MediaMonkey you can fix the driveID within MediaMonkey 5: https://www.mediamonkey.com/wiki/WebHel ... sign_Drive

[doane2u]

Easiest is using MediaMonkey: https://www.mediamonkey.com/wiki/WebHel ... enames/5.0

This only seems to be about moving folders and there is a big warning at the top!
If I understand this, If, under Folders, if I select the E:\Music folder, (which has all my music in sub folders) and I right click copy, and then paste in the new drive F:\ it will copy that folder and all the subfolders to that other drive along with all the data base information including pix, etc.?

If you want to do it outside of MediaMonkey you can fix the driveID within MediaMonkey 5: https://www.mediamonkey.com/wiki/WebHel ... sign_Drive

Is that after I have copied all the files over to the new drive using File Explorer instead of MM5?

[Lowlander]

Auto-Organize Files can be set to Copy instead of Move and you can use Copy & Paste in the Location sub-node of a Collection in the Media Tree as well as in Folders.

Yes, you fix the driveID after you've copied the files outside of MediaMonkey (like with File Explorer).

[doane2u]

Okay, thanks, I'm really nervous about doing this as I have a LOT of data attached to music files.
Should I back up the data base first, to some place easy to get to in case things get messed up so I can restore everything?
Thanks,

[Lowlander]

You can keep a copy, I keep many. MediaMonkey 5 updates the database to a new database for MediaMonkey 5, thus you already should have an old copy of the MediaMonkey 4 database to return to.

[doane2u]

I just have MM5 now, I deleted all the MM4 stuff as I was really impressed with 5 and all my data was ported over to 5 successfully, but it's all been in the same drive and file tree.