Migration to another account
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Hello,
I have had to create a new account on my MacBook, and would like to move my other DB to this account. I had a big issue with Apple Music and froze the BeaTunes DB before it all started, so I had a record of the song library just in case.
It seems I need it as a reference, and would like to copy this DB onto the new account, same machine.
I followed the instructions on the web site, which was to copy the folder contents under /Application Support/BeaTunes/
On launching the app in the new account, it doesn’t recognise the DB and creates a new empty one in the same folder.
Can you advise what is required to enable this?
Thanks,
Terry Price
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Support Staff 1 Posted by hendrik on 10 Oct, 2022 06:14 PM
Hey Terry,
how did you create the Apple Music library in the new account?
-hendrik
2 Posted by Terry Price on 11 Oct, 2022 08:56 AM
Hello,
For the new account, it was a iCloud library sync. On the MacBook I’m downloading all as iCloud Music pure meta data is seeming quite flakey. Hoping downloading the file will fix the meta data to something fixed on the computer. Downloads are coming from purchased or Apple Music mainly with a mix of matched and uploaded content not available on Apple Music.
I’m going to create a new beatunes sync once the library is repaired as a log
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Support Staff 3 Posted by hendrik on 12 Oct, 2022 07:32 AM
Hey Terry,
thanks.
Can you point me to these instructions, please? I cannot remember ever having written any for moving a beaTunes library between accounts, but I might be mistaken.
Thank you,
-hendrik
4 Posted by Terry Price on 12 Oct, 2022 07:53 AM
Hi Hendrik,
NP, here you go;
http://help.beatunes.com/kb/backup-and-migration/moving-to-a-new-computer
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Support Staff 5 Posted by hendrik on 12 Oct, 2022 08:05 AM
Hm.. copying the folders applies to folder-based libraries. But you seem to have a Music/iTunes-based library.
6 Posted by Terry Price on 12 Oct, 2022 08:10 AM
It does talk about iTunes embedded scenarios but for v4 and earlier. All I want to do is open the database, a simple backup option might have worked. Once sorted going to link up a new database properly.
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Support Staff 7 Posted by hendrik on 12 Oct, 2022 08:42 AM
Right. The advice for v4 applies to v5 as well (I have just added that info to the page). It basically says: embed all data in your audio files, because your database cannot be connected to a new Music/iTunes installation in a different account. This is because a new iTunes/Music installation in a different account uses new ids, which cannot be mapped anymore to the old beaTunes database. That is why copying the beaTunes Application Support folder does not help. The article does not spell it out in this detail. But that's the reason it specifically speaks about folder-based libraries and iTunes/Music-based libraries. What helps for the folder-based case is unfortunately worthless for iTunes/Music.
And then what? It's completely unconnected from Music or iTunes at this point.
8 Posted by Terry Price on 12 Oct, 2022 09:56 AM
Hi,
As stated I want to be able to access a snapshot given I obviously can’t trust Apple Music not to remove songs. At the moment have two accounts on my Mac a
New account without BeaTunes connected yet, and the other signed out of all accounts and sync disabled on BeaTunes, having to switch between accounts to restore my data as it was.
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Support Staff 9 Posted by hendrik on 30 Oct, 2022 01:29 PM
I am sorry, Terry, but this kind of scenario is currently unsupported.