Reinstalling Google Music Manager on new computer

Reinstalled Windows and Google Music Manager and now it tries to upload all your songs again? Rather just synchronizing with cloud? Here how I solved this problem.

First, you will need your previous computer storage. I always do a full backup to external drive before I wipe OS. So here what needs to be done:

1. Install Google Music Manager. Close the wizard that starts right after installation and close the application (make sure it is not running in System Tray).

2. Go to your backup and find the file “ServerDatabase.db” in folder “C:\users\YOUR USERNAME\AppData\Local\Google\MusicManager”. Again, this is on your OLD computer backup!

3. Copy the file to the same path, but on your new OS.

4. Start Music Manager and complete its wizard. Note, it will say “XXXX files will be uploaded”. Just ignore it and let it configure itself.

5. Close and start Music Manager again and go to options to verify that it says “XXXX songs uploaded”, similar to the screenshot below and your are done:

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