I’ve set up Rock on o NUC8i7BEH with a separate internal SSD for my music storage. All working fine apart from missing edits for my local files.
I’ve taken care to follow the instructions.
I disabled my storage location, shut down Roon and copied the music files over the network. I’ve renamed the database folder on my PC.
My backup was previously restored via USB plugged directly into my NUC. The tags I set up for Qobuz have been restored, but it is evident that this is not the case for the local files. My favourited albums in mp3 format are no not favourited. The Qobuz ones are. Also those mp3 albums merged with the Qobuz ones are now separate.
When changing my storage location, was was greeted with this (except the “Roon Optimized Kit Internal Storage” was disabled [I’d previously disabled scans for the previous location]):
I enabled the “Roon Optimized Kit Storage” and Roon has now imported the tracks and marks them as new. The second location is still inaccessible (there’s no music folder to choose when editing, but I gather this is normal). I’m sure the second was linked to the same location as the first before migration.
I’m not sure what to do now. Will restoring the backup work?
The Top internal storage should be DISABLED as this is the new location and Roon will see anything here as new. Below it is the old location, which needs to be edited. There is a link under it “edit this folder”. Click that and change THAT storage link to the new location.
I tried that first. There were no folders to select as I mentioned in passing in the post. Sorry for not being clear but I followed the steps carefully and ended up being trumped and thought I might have misunderstood. Naturally I enabled the top link. I was able to access \\Rock\ so thought the Win 10 SMB setting wasn’t to blame.
Sorry, you will have to talk me through this. The internal storage is in my NUC. How do I disable that?
The music was copied from an internal drive in my PC over the network (took 18 hours).
Sorry, Daren, a bit of too early and too little coffee. I completely misunderstood the original situation as I had missed you migrated machines as well as storage locations. However, the basic gist of the situation is still the same. Roon is seeing any files in the new internal storage as new.
Since you might need to do another backup of the old Roon and restore, you might try this first,
Disable the current internal storage location by clicking the 3 dots and choosing DISABLE.
Then Edit the original storage location and when get that blank screen you posted, Choose Add Network Share and then add \\ROCK\Data\, like I have done on my ROCK build
And then browse to the music folder and select it.
In terms of making a backup, yes you would use an external USB drive and point Roon to that. You cannot use the internal storage for backups. Well, you could try but that would be a bad idea.
