[SOLVED] Moving music to a new hard drive

Hey T-Top. Assuming you are using internal hard drives? With rekordbox closed, I would:

1. COPY everything from your old hard drive to your new hard drive, keeping the same folder structure.

2. Then on your old hard drive, move all of your music to a new folder so that rekordbox can no longer find it

3. Then open rekordbox and use the relocate missing files utility and all of your music should show up as being missing.

4. WITHOUT selecting any file in the list of missing files, click relocate and then navigate to the first file rekordbox asks for on your NEW hard drive (avoid using the search function so you don't accidentally select the same file on your old hard drive). Once you show rekordbox where the first file is, it will ask if you want to use the location of that file to relocate all of the other missing files. Click yes -  I've found rekordbox is pretty good at doing this.

5. Once you are sure that rekordbox has relocated all of the missing files and everything's working properly, you can delete your music off your old hard drive.

If you are using two external drives, you can just copy everything from your old drive to the new drive (retaining folder structure), disconnect the old drive, rename the new drive to the same name as your old drive (including drive letter if you're working in Windows) and then when you open rekordbox it shouldn't be able to tell the difference! You can always use the relocate feature if it has any problems.

BriChi has even made a video of the process of relocating multiple files, see his reply to the OP... http://forums.pioneerdj.com/entries/25136231-Find-missing-tracks-automatically-

Thanks for your response! However they're not all in the exact same folder so it doesn't seem to want to work :(

My music is auto-organized from iTunes, so each artist and album for that artist have their own separate folders (although there is a root folder in the same place)

Sounds yuck! I recently changed the setting in iTunes to prevent it from saving a copy of every track that I play in iTunes to the iTunes library folder, so I keep a "rekordbox" folder and everything within that folder is organised the way I want my playlists organised in rekordbox. You can still make playlists etc in iTunes but instead iTunes refers to the rekordbox location instead of making a copy of every track and "re-organising" them. This way when I buy new tracks I just add them to the appropriate playlist folder in my rekordbox folder and then drag/drop each playlist folder into the rekordbox playlists to add the new tracks (you just tell rekordbox to skip the tracks that are already in your collection).

Anyway, not sure how the above helps you solve your problem, but this method has worked well for me in terms of ease of adding new tracks and organising playlists. Especially handy if you accidentally delete playlists out of rekordbox, you can just drag/drop all the tunes back in from your hdd.

Are you using iTunes to copy your music to your new hdd or are you doing it manually? Just wondering why they're not organised the same way on your new hdd?

Also can you elaborate on "there is a root folder in the same place"?

I used a program called "ExtremeCopy Pro" that basically copies the files in the same structure when upgrading my main HDD from a 1.5TB to a 4TB and then renamed the new HDD to the same name and drive letter as the old one and rekordbox didn't need to "locate missing files" worked perfectly!! :D

@T-Top > The easiest method is to use cloning software to duplicate the data on both drives. I recommend CCloner or SuperDuper.