Roland0 and Erland,
Many thanks to you both for your helpful replies. Although I may later find out that my current optimism isn't warranted, I seem to have achieved what I wanted, which was a "fresh start." I believe that things were just as you, Erland, suggested. After I did both a "Delete unused statistics" and "Remove all data" one right after the other, I then immediately did a manual backup, and the backup file was just an "empty" .xml file ready to receive data. Then I immediately did a "clear library and rescan everything" as a test. I followed this by doing another manual backup, and the .xml file was full of data rather than the empty shell the previous backup produced. I believe this was a demonstration of what you predicted in that what I'd done was to "get rid of the data related to files that no longer exist, but the old data will still be there for files that exist." In any event, I've begun happily listening to music and making my ratings anew. A quick creation and test of an SQL Playlist showed that I can (for example) play a random set of tunes I have rated 5* since my fresh start. I was content to start from scratch again, and it looks like that's what I've accomplished. Salvaging the old data would have been good (and the ratings in the small number of files that didn't get moved during my restructuring HAVE been preserved), but I'm OK with the way things are. I've done both scheduled backups and a manual backup, and they seemed to go ok. The relationship between the two still seems a little confusing to me, but I intend to continue with scheduled backups so if I ever have to "restore" from file" I can just point to the most recent scheduled backup file as the one from which the restoring will be done. Thanks again to you both. Doing the ratings again means I'm listening to more music lately...that's the whole point, isn't it? :) Steve ------------------------------------------------------------------------ radish112's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11591 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=113844 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
