Windows Media Player: Playlists Successfully Copied between PC's But Not Playable. Media Player Looking for the 'User' on the old PC.

[PaulFairlie]

I recently bought a new PC with Windows 11. I have a playlists on the old Windows 10 PC in Windows Media Player. Based on various 'how-to' sites, I copied the playlists successfully from the old to new PC (i.e., I found the playlist folders in C:\Users\myname\Music\ and copied them to the corresponding location on the new PC). So what's working? The playlists are all there when I open Windows Media Player (Version 11.2405.8.0) on the new PC. However, if I try to play an mp3, I get the error, "We can't open [path]. You don't have permission to access the file." This is an example of a path: C:\

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