Windows 7 Music Library

I have the Windows 7 operating system that contains the various "Library" features.
With the help of tt2, I have been able to download my "Tagged" .wav files to my "H" Drive, and backup to my "I" Drive.
I have two questions:
1. Rather than do a complete backup, when I make changes and add new music; is there a way (setting) under SyncToy 2.1 that I can just backup the new data and changes added to my "Tagged" .wav Music Files on my "H" drive database?
2. When I open my "H" and "I" drives, the complete Tagged Columnar Database is visible; however, when I open my "Music Library", the database has reverted back to the format that I had originally. Example: "01 Holy Water.wav", "02 Walk Through Fire". Is there an easy way, other than creating new "Left" and "Right" folders under SyncToy 2.1, to copy the "Tagged" Music Database from my "H" drive to my "Music Library" (this takes hours to run the program; and I would have to do it for my Backup and again to update my Music Library)?

Hi haydnan
It may be a problem of Windows 7 Explorer. First you can try all the different explorer views, title, Large icon..
If there is no effect, you can try to the following methods.
In Windows Explorer
1. left click on the mail folder where your music is stored and select it.
2. Now right click and go to “properties”.
3. Now click “advanced”.
4. Put a check in the “Allow files in this folder to have contents indexed in addition to file properties”.
5.Click ”OK”.
6.Click”Apply”.
7. Click “OK” to apply changes to this folder. Sub folders and files.
Now go to your music library and see if it works.

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