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Old November 20th, 2021, 07:43 AM
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Re: Process to uninstall MP4 files

This depends if you want to move a whole folder of these songs or various tracks from different folders ?

Simply copy the whole folder or individual files to your new location.
If copying individual files you must copy both the original video file and its corresponding KMH file as this carries the Disc Id and Book Id info.
Do not delete anything yet from the external drive.
I would suggest you create a new folder to copy them to.

Now before indexing these files you need remove them from the existing database to avoid any duplicating of ids. You must have the external drive connected while doing this.

If you moved a whole folder of songs you can remove them from the database by opening the Tools/Songs Database/Build database dialog.
Look down the list of folders in the left column, select the folder to be removed then click the Remove folder button. You can check if its the correct folder by its contents shown in the right hand panel.
When complete you should get a confirmation X amount of songs removed from database.

Now you can add the new folder by selecting the Add folder button after which your files will be restored to the new location.

If you only chose to copy individual files you will have to remove the originals from the Tools/Edit songs dialog by listing the songs there and using the Delete button for each song you need to remove from the database. You will need to have the external drive connected to do this.
Once you have removed them, open the Build database again, Add the new folder as before.

If you chose to add them to an existing folder and not create a new one you would have to select the folder in the Buildsongs database and select Rescan folder. This will show a dialog at the end stating added X amount of songs if successful.
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