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.
Copy to new drive?
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Copy to new drive?
Media Monkey Gold 5
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Audio Sound Blaster Z SBX Studio
C: Samsung 980 1TB M.2 NVME SS
E: SATA Western Digital Black 1TB (to be replace with a Samsung 980 1TB M.2 NVME SS)
Windows 10 Home 64x
MB Gigabyte Z590 UD AC w/ Intel core i5-11600k 3.9GHz 6 core
RAM G.Skill Ripjaws V 32GB DDR4-2600
Video EVGA GeForce GTX1660 TI
Audio Sound Blaster Z SBX Studio
C: Samsung 980 1TB M.2 NVME SS
E: SATA Western Digital Black 1TB (to be replace with a Samsung 980 1TB M.2 NVME SS)
Re: Copy to new drive?
BTW, I just updated to the new MM Gold 5 version and I love it!
Media Monkey Gold 5
Windows 10 Home 64x
MB Gigabyte Z590 UD AC w/ Intel core i5-11600k 3.9GHz 6 core
RAM G.Skill Ripjaws V 32GB DDR4-2600
Video EVGA GeForce GTX1660 TI
Audio Sound Blaster Z SBX Studio
C: Samsung 980 1TB M.2 NVME SS
E: SATA Western Digital Black 1TB (to be replace with a Samsung 980 1TB M.2 NVME SS)
Windows 10 Home 64x
MB Gigabyte Z590 UD AC w/ Intel core i5-11600k 3.9GHz 6 core
RAM G.Skill Ripjaws V 32GB DDR4-2600
Video EVGA GeForce GTX1660 TI
Audio Sound Blaster Z SBX Studio
C: Samsung 980 1TB M.2 NVME SS
E: SATA Western Digital Black 1TB (to be replace with a Samsung 980 1TB M.2 NVME SS)
Re: Copy to new drive?
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
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
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Lowlander (MediaMonkey user since 2003)
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Re: Copy to new drive?
This only seems to be about moving folders and there is a big warning at the top!Lowlander wrote: ↑Thu Oct 07, 2021 9:02 pm Easiest is using MediaMonkey: https://www.mediamonkey.com/wiki/WebHel ... enames/5.0
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.?
Is that after I have copied all the files over to the new drive using File Explorer instead of MM5?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
Media Monkey Gold 5
Windows 10 Home 64x
MB Gigabyte Z590 UD AC w/ Intel core i5-11600k 3.9GHz 6 core
RAM G.Skill Ripjaws V 32GB DDR4-2600
Video EVGA GeForce GTX1660 TI
Audio Sound Blaster Z SBX Studio
C: Samsung 980 1TB M.2 NVME SS
E: SATA Western Digital Black 1TB (to be replace with a Samsung 980 1TB M.2 NVME SS)
Windows 10 Home 64x
MB Gigabyte Z590 UD AC w/ Intel core i5-11600k 3.9GHz 6 core
RAM G.Skill Ripjaws V 32GB DDR4-2600
Video EVGA GeForce GTX1660 TI
Audio Sound Blaster Z SBX Studio
C: Samsung 980 1TB M.2 NVME SS
E: SATA Western Digital Black 1TB (to be replace with a Samsung 980 1TB M.2 NVME SS)
Re: Copy to new drive?
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).
Yes, you fix the driveID after you've copied the files outside of MediaMonkey (like with File Explorer).
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Lowlander (MediaMonkey user since 2003)
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Re: Copy to new drive?
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,
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,
Media Monkey Gold 5
Windows 10 Home 64x
MB Gigabyte Z590 UD AC w/ Intel core i5-11600k 3.9GHz 6 core
RAM G.Skill Ripjaws V 32GB DDR4-2600
Video EVGA GeForce GTX1660 TI
Audio Sound Blaster Z SBX Studio
C: Samsung 980 1TB M.2 NVME SS
E: SATA Western Digital Black 1TB (to be replace with a Samsung 980 1TB M.2 NVME SS)
Windows 10 Home 64x
MB Gigabyte Z590 UD AC w/ Intel core i5-11600k 3.9GHz 6 core
RAM G.Skill Ripjaws V 32GB DDR4-2600
Video EVGA GeForce GTX1660 TI
Audio Sound Blaster Z SBX Studio
C: Samsung 980 1TB M.2 NVME SS
E: SATA Western Digital Black 1TB (to be replace with a Samsung 980 1TB M.2 NVME SS)
Re: Copy to new drive?
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.
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Lowlander (MediaMonkey user since 2003)
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Re: Copy to new drive?
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.
Media Monkey Gold 5
Windows 10 Home 64x
MB Gigabyte Z590 UD AC w/ Intel core i5-11600k 3.9GHz 6 core
RAM G.Skill Ripjaws V 32GB DDR4-2600
Video EVGA GeForce GTX1660 TI
Audio Sound Blaster Z SBX Studio
C: Samsung 980 1TB M.2 NVME SS
E: SATA Western Digital Black 1TB (to be replace with a Samsung 980 1TB M.2 NVME SS)
Windows 10 Home 64x
MB Gigabyte Z590 UD AC w/ Intel core i5-11600k 3.9GHz 6 core
RAM G.Skill Ripjaws V 32GB DDR4-2600
Video EVGA GeForce GTX1660 TI
Audio Sound Blaster Z SBX Studio
C: Samsung 980 1TB M.2 NVME SS
E: SATA Western Digital Black 1TB (to be replace with a Samsung 980 1TB M.2 NVME SS)