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Auto-locate corrupted hunderds of my tracks on Rekordbox's collection

Hi

I had to run auto-relocate on my 20K Rekordbox collection.
It took about 3-4 hours, and when it was done, I realised that almost 4K of these files, can not be found by Rekordbox.
Now, when trying to relocate manually some of these files, I received a message saying the file I'm trying to manually associate with Rekordbox's collection "already exists".
I then realised that Rekordbox mismatched those tracks in my collection with the wrong files. Meaning that if I press play on one of these mismatched files, according to what it says on the collection, a completely different track would play.
This is obviously unacceptable.
It is also important to note that the entire Rekordbox collection of tracks is also associated with a Music library (Apple's iTunes replacement) and there the files play correctly.

What can be done to fix this disastrous outcome of Rekordbox's faulty auto-relocate function??

 

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If the relocation fails because the song "already exists in the collection," that indicates you have imported the song once, then the file was moved, then imported again, leaving the first import with the source file "missing." Relocating that file won't be allowed because the file is effectively already there, you have a duplicate.

My recommendation is to find one of the missing songs, then sort the collection by song name, and compare it and its twin. Look in the info panel or show the column with the path information to note where the old file was and where the new file is located. See what change was made, then look at another pair and compare those two changes. Figure out which one you want to keep -- if it's the new one, you're good, just delete the song with the missing source. If it's the OLD one, then you need to delete the new entries (you can take note of the import date of the new songs and then sort your collection by import date, then batch delete those entries), and then use this process to relocate the songs.

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