sealguyken

That's what we did. The problem is not in backing them up, the problem is getting them off of the external hard drive onto the new computer... after you've backed them up. I think A440's comments are correct. Thanks.

Used the Backup tool right in the SS 2.3 program. Just selected the external hard drive as the source, so we could connect the same external hard drive to the new pc. Also tried to "copy" a file and paste it.... but that resulted in the same. I just don't understand why the external hard drive is full of songs, but will only play when retrived from the old pc with SS 2.3. The same files won't do squat when retrived from the new pc with SS 3.3 Originally, we thought problem might be that new pc had SS 2.0, so we upgraded it on th www to 3.3. Putting new CDs on the new pc will be impossible. The CDs he used are well into the 100s and took place over a long span of time. If there's no way to transfer his SS Music Library from one pc to another... I suppose he'll just have accept it. So much for SS being "user-friendly". Thanks for the reply!

Newbie (BIG TIME) here, so parden my ignorance if this question is stupid. My son has MY pc packed full of songs in SS 2.3. He bought himself his own laptop, and downloaded SS 3.3 on it. We spent half the night "backing up" his SS 2.3 Music Library onto an external hard drive, but have been unsuccssful trying to upload that data into his new pc. I tried to "copy" a few onto the external harddrive, but the upload onto his new pc resulted in the same. All of his music backed up on the external hard drive are in folder by number, rather than by name now, and each folder has a subfolder titled 203. When you open the 203 subfolder (from the old pc), it contains a list of songs, each identified with a SS emblem. When you try to open the 203 file from the new pc (remember they are all in the external hard drive), the songs show up without the SS emblem and when you select to play it on the new pc, it tells you that a "license is required". Most of his music was taken from his own personal CD collection, so since he owns the CDs. Is there anyway I can get his "collection" off of my pc and onto his???? HHHEEEELLLLPPPP