J River Media Center 19

This has changed in 19.

"If you have a different directory on the new computer you can use Tools - Library Tools - Rename, Move & Copy - Find and Replace to change the path. If you do the Find and Replace, I would suggest trying it on an album or two first, before doing the whole library."

It's similar but you can't do a Find & Replace on Filename field any longer; just make sure you use Update Location (as opposed to Copy, Rename, etc.)

cheers!

Just tried Find and Replace on JRiver 19 and it seems to work the same as on v18. You can still do a Find and Replace for drives and folder names. The Update Location to Point to a New Location is a nice option. Seems like both of them can be used to change a drive and/or folder name.

Updated comment after trying on V 19.

I do the same thing for propagating one library to two PC's in different locations.... after cloning the data drives using something like filesync.

If you use the media server feature in one location... the unique network identifier gets copied and creates havoc with networked devices. I think you don't want to transfer settings to prevent this... So... I think I should only restore the database and not the views and other features of the program. (don't ask me how I know)

I do the same thing for propagating one library to two PC's in different locations.... (after cloning the data drives using something like filesync).

If you use the media server feature in one location... the unique network identifier gets copied and creates havoc with networked devices. I think you don't want to transfer settings to prevent this... So... I think I should only restore the database and not the views and other features of the program. (don't ask me how I know)

Tcatman - it seems easier to restore all the settings and then reset the Media Network key on the new PC than to do all the settings by hand on the new PC.