0015729: Improvements to facilitate migration to a new drive - MantisBT

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0015729	MMW 5	FileMonitor / Find Missing	public	2019-06-07 16:07	2023-10-05 00:48

Reporter	rusty	Assigned To
Priority	high	Severity	feature	Reproducibility	always
Status	feedback	Resolution	reopened
Product Version	5.0
Target Version	5.2	Fixed in Version	5.0

Summary	0015729: Improvements to facilitate migration to a new drive
Description	Per suggestions in 0015695, it would be useful to automate/improve migration to a new drive via: 1) Automating aspects of the Locate moved/missing dialog so that it can automatically search selected directories for files that can't be found. e.g. Find moved/missing files ===================== Find files missing from: [ ] Selected files [ ] C: [ ] D: [ ] ... ------------------------------- Search for the files in: > [ ] C:: > [ ] D: ... ... ------------------------------------- [ ] Hide unselected items __________________________ [Add] Even better would be if MM would pre-populate the checkbox for drives that are missing. Note: the above is just one suggested way of automating this--I'm open to other ideas... 2) The ability to edit drive labels to match actual folders ('Rename')
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Fixed in build	2223

rusty 2019-06-28 14:41 administrator ~0054000 Last edited: 2019-06-28 14:42	3) Another possible approach that combines 1) & 2) without introducing automation: a) a context menu for any Media location: Find inaccessible files... (instead of Properties...) This would open the dialog from #13229, perhaps with some introductory text indicating: If all content a given location is inaccessible, update the location of all content previously at that location to the new location. b) if the user accesses Files > Find moved/missing files... -->i) if no file is selected, just prompt the user for which drive to change. e.g. \|[Find missing media]\|Find files\| \| \|If all content a given location is inaccessible, update the location of all content previously at that location to the new location. \| Old location: _D:___________v \| New location: ______________ [browse] \| . Label: _____________ (only display if it's a drive) \| . Serial Number: _______________ (only display if it's a drive) ii) if files are selected --> Prompt the user for which location to search (i.e. how it works today). e.g. \|Find missing media\|[Find files]\| \| \| > [ ] C:\[Windows] \| > [ ] D:\[Data] \| \| [ ] Hide unselected items \| __________________________ . . . [Add]

lowlander 2019-06-28 18:43 developer ~0054004	4) An automated method, startup drive availability check On MM start it would check if the drives in the Library are accessible. If drive(s) are found to be inaccessible a prompt would allow the users to match inaccessible drive with accessible drives. This would also have an option to tell MM not to check specific drives in the future (useful when using external drives that aren't connected, or unavailable mapped drives). There would be a global option in Options to disable this.

Ludek 2020-01-23 11:34 developer ~0056164 Last edited: 2020-01-23 11:35	Re solution 2) I see that "Media Properties" dialog was added by Petr in the past, but it was subsequently (accidentally?) removed. I added it back (in course of 0006229 ), but haven't tested it much. I just briefly changed from C:\ to D:\ in the Location dropdown and it seems to work, it wrote "Location change is complete and will take effect after MediaMonkey restart" and after the restart the files were really re-located. So I guess it is quite a good and easy method of assigning new drive after drive replacement or PC migration.

rusty 2020-01-27 19:25 administrator ~0056266	Re-opening to carry forward the issues that aren't being resolved in 0006229, namely: - improved usability - support for directories / network paths