Hi,
I do have an external HDD called "MAC500" connected to my computer. On this HDD all my music files are located. Recently I've changed my HDD to a new one, which has more space (from 500GB to 1TB). I gave the new HDD the same name and copied all my files from the old MAC500 to the new MAC500. I did not realized that Mac OS X did rename the new HDD on the filesystem to "MAC500 1". After the filecopy has been completed I've disconnected my old HDD and copied new files to the new HDD. These files I've loaded into rekordbox.
After a reboot of my machine the new MAC500 is being mounted as "MAC500" without the SPACE1 in the path. Hence, recordbox does not find my files anymore. As I've associated files already to playlists etc, I do not simply want to remove them and add them again, as it would cause a lot of effort finding the files in the playlists, removing them manually and adding them back again. We're talking about 180 files ...
As a workaround I'm adding a symbolic link always before starting rekordbox, which is pretty annoying ...
"ln -s /Volumes/MAC500 /Volumes/MAC500\ 1"
When adding the symbolic link rekordbox will find the file. When removing the symbolic link and relocating the file manually rekordbox keeps telling me "File is already in the collection". Do I have any chance to change the path manually outside rekordbox?
If not, do I have a chance to see in which playlists the "broken" file is included, so that I can add it manually later again?
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First, rekordbox doesn't play well with symbolic links - you can remove that. Second, you're better off to relocate ONE of the files to the correct location and rekordbox will ask if you want to relocate the rest of the files using the same path change.
Give that a shot and let me know if that works.
Hi,
ok, tried it. The issue is that rekordbox gives me back "This file is already in the collection." So, when searching the file in the collections it's available twice. One time with the wrong path and one time with the right path. The issue is, that I do not want to simply remove the "wrong" file, as I do not know in which playlists this is located. Is there any chance to see which playlists consists of this "wrong" file, so that I have a chance to replace them?
I have reported this too, The relocate feature does not work well with similar named files in different locations. It actually changed both of mine to the same path and then was loading the wrong version i wanted. Hopefully a fix is in place soon
Thank you! Is there a chance to report a bug to Pioneer?
It's already been done, but in future, to avoid this problem, my recommendation is a bit more prudence in music management. ;)
Yes, you can see which playlists a track is in - simply select a track in your collection and a small triangle will appear beside your collection count (above where the preview waveforms are if you use the default layout). Clicking that will show which playlists the track is in.
+1 for a fix.
This is a frustrating bug.
I am also getting this problem now.
My iTunes library was getting a bit full so I moved everything before 2011 to a normal Finder folder and deleted it all from iTunes.
Hoping the "relocate" feature could then just find all my tracks in their new path,
Prob worked with 80% of the tracks but now the last ones don't want to work. Keeps on saying the file is already in my collection but it still shows it under the "missing files" when I close and reopen Rekordbox? And when I locate it to the new location it again gives me an error of the file is already in my collection?