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Process to move files without breaking links?
rnbPostSeptember 21, 2025, 08:22
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Awesome. I'll give it a go on some test folders this week and see if all turns out. Thanks a heap... If i have any questions i'll be sure to post back.
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rnbPostSeptember 24, 2025, 11:03
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Happy to report, so far so good. I ran the script on a second Music library and all seemed to turn out well. Thanks again.

What would you say is the best approach if i want to modify the script? A text editor is sufficient?
2MR2PostSeptember 24, 2025, 11:08
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If you want to change the action, you'll have to edit it in the Action Manager. The action is not stored internally as text and requires Yate to interpret the various per statement settings t the internal binary form. If you cant to make changes, you can duplicate the action first in the Action Manager. That way you;ll retain the original.
rnbPostSeptember 30, 2025, 12:54
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Ok, after taking a look at the script in the action manager... i think i understand why you offered to write it for me. There's not much chance i could have created that by myself. I ran the script on my full library and all seemed to work well again. Now as i look through the file structure i see a lot of my work is going to be manually moving what ended up in /Unknown Genre/Unknown Artist/Unknown Album/ folders into their correct locations. That's going to take some time.

I'm a bit unsure of the recommended process to physically move files in the Finder without them going missing in Apple Music. There are probably a couple 1000 files/folders i'll have to move... I'm assuming Music is going to lose the path. Is this something Yate can help with? From what i understand... my options after making a ton of file/folder moves are to one by one find missing file in Music (can't see myself doing this)... or re-import the whole top level 'music' folder to Music again (which apparently wipes out some metadata thats in the Music db not the file itself, ie. Love, plays, date added), but does get the job done of relinking the files. If there's a way I can make all the file structure changes without creating a ton more work relinking moved files. that would be super.

Thanks again for the help!
2MR2PostSeptember 30, 2025, 13:10
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The action is only so complicated because of all the sanity checking that was performed on the metadata. If you have that many Unknown folders I guess the sanity checks were worthwhile.

The action was intentionally written to run through the batch processor and in immediate mode. This was done to make your life easier when repairing the metadata.

To test, load up a single folder from /Unknown Genre/Unknown Artist/Unknown Album. Correct the metadata to reflect what you want. ie. Genre, Album Artist/Artist, Album. When the changes have been made, run the action via Actions>User Defined>RB-Move. Alternately you can run the action from a toolbar item, context menu or any way you want ... as long as it's not the Batch Processor.

The action will relocate the loaded tracks, updating the linkages in Music. Look at the status bar after running the action. You'll see the files have been relocated.
rnbPostSeptember 30, 2025, 15:48
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wow that was fast, thanks man. I'll give this a shot now.
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