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Support => Questions => Topic started by: adfrank on July 02, 2020, 09:36:08 PM

Title: How to backup only MusicBee data, settings and preferences, NOT music files?
Post by: adfrank on July 02, 2020, 09:36:08 PM: Hi.
Finally got around to sorting and organizing my chaotic music collection and was super happy to find MusicBee. It's exactly the player I was looking for.

Apologies in advance, because I feel I should probably be able to find the answer to my question in this Backup & Restore wiki (https://musicbee.fandom.com/wiki/Backup_%26_Restore)

but after reading through it, I'm still not sure. So asking here.

I already have an arrangement to back up the entire hard drive that among other things, also contains my music library (the actual mp3, wav, flac music files). So that part is covered.
However, I just want to also make sure that all the files specific to MusicBee personalization (settings, metadata, play history, album covers, preferences, etc) that I suppose exist in the "AppData" folder, or possibly elsewhere, are also backed up.

I'm using the portable version.

I'd be happy to learn what exactly I should back up. Is it just a matter of backing up the AppData folder and that's all? Can I use the MusicBee "Backup library" tool mentioned in the wiki, or is that only for backing up everything including music files?

Looking forward to your replies.

Thanks!
Title: Re: How to backup only MusicBee data, settings and preferences, NOT music files?
Post by: psychoadept on July 02, 2020, 10:34:25 PM: Hi, welcome to the forum!

With the portable version, you can just backup the folder you installed it in and you're good to go.
Title: Re: How to backup only MusicBee data, settings and preferences, NOT music files?
Post by: adfrank on July 03, 2020, 03:43:57 AM: Quote from: psychoadept on July 02, 2020, 10:34:25 PM
With the portable version, you can just backup the folder you installed it in and you're good to go.

face palm! of course. i'm an idiot :P
Title: Re: How to backup only MusicBee data, settings and preferences, NOT music files?
Post by: psychoadept on July 03, 2020, 06:03:37 AM: Haha, happy to help! That wasn't supposed to be a question mark in my greeting, speaking of face palms.