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Update Library
Home » Support » Help and tutorials » Functions and tools » Update Library
The Update Library tool updates your library to reflect changes to the files on your computer. Use Update Library when you want to make sure that the library information is up-to-date with the files on your computer.
If files have been added or removed from your computer from outside of Helium Music Manager, you will be unable to view these files from the program until your library has been updated.
Using the Update Library tool
- Click on File > Update Library... from the main menu.
- Select the folders that you want to update by clicking the check box to the left of the folders.
- Click OK to start updating the selected folders.
Note:
- Click Show Advanced to display advanced options
- Select the Remove Unavailable Items from Library option to remove files from the database that are currently in your database but can't be found on your computer.
- Select the Force a Library update from all files option to force files in the selected folders to be updated (even though the time stamp says that they are not modified since the last synchronization) or added to the database.
- Select the Search for album pictures in folders option to search for newly added album pictures in the albums' folders during the synchronization process. Located album pictures will only be added for albums that do not already contain a picture.
- Select the Search for album pictures in tags option to search for newly added album pictures from the files during the synchronization process. Located album pictures will only be added for albums that do not already contain a picture.
- Select the filetypes you would like to add (if any new files are found during the process) from the Selected filetypes list.
- You can let Helium Music Manager monitor folders of your choice to automatically add new files. See the Use automatic Library updating in the Update Library section in Options to read more.
- Updating of your library can take long time, depending on the following:
- How many files need to be updated.
- How many folders are selected to be scanned for new files.
- How many new files were found.
