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General Discussion / Re: The history (Recently Added + Recently Played) was not transferred to the new PC

« on: September 09, 2025, 05:52:10 PM »

Hi,

Thank you very much for the detailed explanation. I had also considered renaming the folder to English but discarded the idea, as both folders on the Windows 10 and Windows 11 PCs are identically named in German (Dokumente/Musik). Furthermore, many other programs access these folders and would have problems if the paths were no longer correct.

Thank you for the offer to edit the library.dat and .idx files. That would be no problem and of course, would be great. But I wonder if it wouldn't be too much effort for you. While it would be nice to have the history, it wouldn't be a catastrophe if it wasn't there. Everything else was copied perfectly. I use the history to display the "Played Last" column and play songs that I haven't listened to in a long time. This makes listening to music with large libraries more fun. Otherwise, I'd have to use the "Shuffle" function more and would also hear songs that have already been played very often. Not great, but as I said, I can live with that too.

It's not necessary to do this work just for me. But if the work is also useful for you, I'll be happy to send the files. There's no rush either; it can also take longer.

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General Discussion / Re: The history (Recently Added + Recently Played) was not transferred to the new PC

« on: September 08, 2025, 08:58:55 PM »

WACUP v199.38.22626, dated Sep. 8.2025
Thanks for the quick response. I apologize, I forgot to mention the WACUP version and just installed the latest update.

I think I'm getting closer to the problem. It seems to be related to Windows 10/11 and the English/German language settings. I am German, and my Windows system language is German.

On my Windows 10 computer, the Documents directory with the Music subfolder is on drive D. Both directories are displayed in German (Dokumente\Musik) in Windows Explorer and various file managers. However, in WACUP's Folder Monitor settings, it shows the path as Documents\Music in English. When I copied all the AppData settings to my new Windows 11 PC, this path was transferred exactly the same way.

On the Windows 11 PC, the directories on drive D are also in German, displayed as Dokumente and Musik in Explorer and file managers. But in the WACUP options, it again shows Documents and Music.
After copying all settings to the Windows 11 PC and starting WACUP for the first time, everything was actually there, including the history, just as it should be. But after the library was rescanned, no more entries were displayed anywhere. The library was now empty. When I selected the Documents\Music entry under the Folder Monitor, went to "Edit," and re-selected the same directory (which, of course, shows as Dokumente\Musik in German in the Explorer), the library was rescanned. Afterward, everything else was present, but unfortunately, the history was not.

I hope there's still a solution to transfer the history.

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General Discussion / The history (Recently Added + Recently Played) was not transferred to the new PC

« on: September 08, 2025, 05:34:56 PM »

Hi Friends!

I have switched to a new PC, upgrading from Windows 10 to Windows 11. The transition worked fine for the most part. All settings, plugins, and even the music library were copied with all their configurations. Unfortunately, the history entries were not (Recently Added, Recently Played, and therefore also the 'Played Last' column). Manually copying the AppData directories or the two files history.dat and history.idx did not help, nor did a backup/restore using the backup tool.

And all the folders on both computers have the same names, including the username, so the AppData directories and paths are identical. Only the computer names are different, since they are, in fact, different computers.

Does anyone have any advice on how to transfer these entries to the new PC?
Thank you very much.