Folder names

[MikeO]

I have 2 HDD F/: and H:

Each has a folder MusicLibrary

Setting these in properties gives an error , do I need a different folder name per drive ?

[simoncn]

If you set multiple folders in contentDir, the last name in the folder path needs to be different. Can you rename one of these folders?

[MikeO]

Yes , I suppose I can just screws backups . I’ll try

Thanks, maybe I play with one folder for now

[Peter@57m]

(14-08-2024 15:36)MikeO Wrote:  Yes , I suppose I can just screws backups . I’ll try

Thanks, maybe I play with one folder for now

You could create an extra directory level on one of the drives, /MusicLibrary/xxx/ and use this in contentDir. Move all directories and files under the existing MusicLibrary to be under xxx. I think this might work - Simon?

Your backups would work as they do now

[simoncn]

Yes, that would work if it doesn't cause problems with backups.

My understanding of the point about backups (perhaps incorrect) was that the OP is doing incremental backups and changing the folder location of a large number of audio files would cause all these files to be written to the backup even though they have not changed.

[MikeO]

(14-08-2024 23:10)simoncn Wrote:  Yes, that would work if it doesn't cause problems with backups.

My understanding of the point about backups (perhaps incorrect) was that the OP is doing incremental backups and changing the folder location of a large number of audio files would cause all these files to be written to the backup even though they have not changed.

No I have 2 drives in the PC , and 2 X 2 x USB External drives as BU.

I use SyncBack pro which copies only files that have changed.

If I change the second drive to H:\MusicLibrary2 so its not identical to F:\MusicLibrary , I will just need to rename the folders on the BU drives and change the destination/source in the sync definition before I next backup. Not a big issue. I would obviously prefer not to start recopying 4Tb (x2) of files just for a name change,, but that wouldn't be the case.

I just thought it odd that the path and not just the Folder Name would need to be unique

Thanks , I will do that.

[simoncn]

MinimServer uses the final folder name as a unique identifier to name the cache file for that contentDir folder (for example, MusicLibrary-1.mcache). All cache files are stored in a single "data" directory, so two paths with the same final folder name would cause a name conflict for these cache files.