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Migratin XP to vista issue

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  • 18-11-2008 1:00am
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    thumpybum
    Registered Users Posts: 81 ✭✭


    New lappie with vista, migrating old files from XP. Got all my music under "my music" which is under "documents & settings". My first experience with vista and discovered the "access is denied" issue getting into the documents and settings folder. Googled and found out about junctions. Lovely, thanks microsoft.
    Anyway, Ive got 40gb of music in "my music" folder but with about 200 playlists all pointing at the "my music" folder. How to migrate the folder so that the paths in the playlist are still valid?
    Im using the migwiz utility. Could just copy them I suppose but how to get past this F*******KINg IDIOTIC problem.....sorry for little rant but Ive just spent the last 7 years carefully compiling playlists and am now faced with redoing them all because someone has decided they dont like "documents and settings" as a folder name, bit late, lads. At least 7 years too late.


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    yoyo
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,011 Mod ✭✭✭✭yoyo


    If the playlists can be opened and read in the likes of notepad could you use the find and replace tool to change the docs & settings directory name to vistas user one? Don't work with playlists myself though so this mightnt be possible!

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    thumpybum
    Registered Users Posts: 81 ✭✭thumpybum


    Yes and no, I use 2 different types of media player, Ive already edited the first type.
    The majority (223) of my playlists are in musicmatch which I still have and love even though they stopped releasing it since yahoo took them over. Im thinking I'll have to export to m3u and script something.
    Still cant get over why vista does that though.


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