Hi psychoadept,
I don't think that this will help me, unless I misunderstand what it does? My issue is with the selection of folders to be copied, not how they appear on the sdcard. They are already lovely and organized and exactly how I want them, no change is needed there. Under the device's "Music" section, not "Settings" is where the problem lies. At the very bottom there is a "Folders" checkbox and I selected the several hundred folders of albums I wanted to copy to the device, since their parent directory more than I want to copy to my phone (it's also larger than my sdcard anyway!). As one would imagine, hunting through this list & checking those off was a time-consuming process, but I couldn't really find a better way to filter out what got copied over so I just bit the bullet and did it once.
Regardless, on the new device this well-curated list of folders to copy over is long gone, and I'd like to import/export that selection between devices so as not to reinvest the time this would take to do again manually. I can see both the old and new devices under Edit Preferences > Devices, so the data is available somewhere, but there doesn't appear to be any obvious way to right-click a device and "export settings" or something like that, which is basically what I'd be after. I do not mind mucking about w/the config files themselves if they're plain text & easy enough to edit manually.
I hope this makes sense! Thanks!