[HueyHq]

Hi @vbat99

Please could you tell me how to update the installation of MC over the previous version? As the installation.exe always creates a new folder with the latest version number in the directory name. I would like to be able to update and maintain my settings and previous cache contents of my movie directories. Is this possible.... Could you include a settings backup export and import feature that would allow clean installation and then import old settings and scraped history to save having to re-scrape all the folders?

Hi Angus,

I've been out of the loop for a while, so I'm not 100% sure about the new installation package, but I'm reasonably sure you can copy the old settings folder and replace the new settings folder. The caches are read from the *cache.xml files and the settings, including the folders, are in config.xml - MC should pick those up without a problem. However, I am writing this from memory, and I don't have my MC dev files available to me, so there is a chance I may be wrong, but it won't hurt for you to give it a go.

I can see where you're coming from about importing settings. If we now have an installation package, it should be modified to ask if you would like to import previous settings.

It seems like vbat99 is flying solo on MC dev at the moment (hat's off to you, my friend!) so unless we have someone come on-board who would like to implement this for us, it may be something we have to wait for!

Cheers,
Huey

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Please let me know if I can provide any more info to help troubleshoot this.

Thanks,
Matt

Hey Matt, I may have a chance to look at this for you. I need to reinstall my dev setup, but in the meantime, if you could PM me a directory listing of your movie collection, I'll look into it at my first opportunity. (If you're unsure how to do that, let me know.)
Cheers, Huey