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All Hot Cue Points Deleted After Clicking "Update Collection" *HELP*

Hi,

I spent hours last night making Hot Cues for almost all my songs. Today I regrettably clicked the "Update Collection" option that is available when you right click on your device in Rekordbox. I thought that "Update Collection" would put all my saved Hot Cues from my library onto my USB but apparently it works backwards (which doesn't make any sense).

So now, after one click of a button, 900 hot cues are gone!!! (300 songs with 3 Hot Cues). Strangely, 50 Songs still have hot cues but all the rest are missing. Furthermore, Rekordbox doesn't appear to have an undo feature so I couldn't undo this action. Is there anyway of getting my Hot Cues back!!! It seems crazy that I clicked one misleading button and now hours of work is gone.

Any help would be much appreciated!!!

Cheers,

Remy.

Remy Brooks

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that sucks man, you think RB would be smart enough to ONLY update changes made and compare to the internal library and NOT delete all your cues. It is simply saying everything on the the usb drive is master and overwrite all data on internal library and that's why it takes so long, instead it should be checking for changes made and update only the tracks changed

this is horrible, I tested this and thats exactly what does happen, RB clearly needs a better synchronization method and programming

BriChi 0 votes
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^ Tell me about it. If it was going to wipe all of my Hot Cues, at least a warning would have been nice. "Update Collection" is totally misleading to begin with. Do you know of any way to revert back. Does RB save previous library's or hot cue information in my computer somewhere?? 

Anyway, cheers for the reply.

Remy Brooks 0 votes
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I'm very sorry you had to learn this the hard way. Always, and I mean always, do a complete backup copy of your system when you have worked a lot in Rekordbox. As you have noticed there is no "Undo" command, correct me if I'm wrong but hasn't this been a standard feature since the mid 90-ies? Utterly mind blowing that command-z, that is present in all other applications since decades, yet has to implemented in Rekordbox...

Once again, always back up so you can "undo" back in time. If you're on a Mac "Time Machine" is your friend. 

The Henrik Maneuver 0 votes
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I tend to backup too before a big change, within the last year too i use "Crashplan", this does online incremental backups without you having to do anything and then if you screw something up, you can go online and grab the last "good" database of RB you had. It's only $5 a month too, cant go wrong

BriChi 0 votes
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