Problems with File Paths after Migration

Hi everyone, today I tried to move my rekordbox library from my old mac to a new one. If followed the migration guide from this forum but i ran into a frustrating problem with the itunes bridge.

After starting rekordbox with the old library i could see all my tracks with the cue points and grids, everything worked fine. But when i "overwrite" (sync) my collection playlists with playlists from itunes all tracks appear twice in rekordbox (and the "newer" versions of each track have to be analysed and thus lack the cue points and so on)

I experimented around a little bit and found out, that my old iTunes (musicfiles) path is /Volumes/Macintosh HD/users/username/...

I entered the exact same path in rekordbox but after the bridge sync the track info shows, that the "newer" versions filepath is just /users/username/... (without /Volumes/Macinthosh HD/).

No matter what i change in either the rekordbox analyze folder oder bridge settings i always end up with 2 versions of every track.

Does anybody know how i can configure rekordbox so that it know those are the exact same files (preventing duplicates and thus preserving my cue poins)?

Or maybe there is a way to tell itunes that it's filepath is /Volumes/Macintosh HD/users/... instead of /users/... (maybe that works to).

I'm grateful for everyone's help!

Cheers

Victor

Victor Tibo July 20, 2014 19:01

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If it shows simply as /users/username, it could be represented as ~/users/username with the ~ being the "hey, just grab it from here" kind of representation. The full path is ALWAYS /Volumes/Drivename/users/username

It would be a little bit like me pointing to a link on this very forum by saying /entries/88169533-Problems-with-File-Paths-after-Migration (the link to this thread) vs. http://forums.pioneerdj.com/entries/88169533-Problems-with-File-Paths-after-Migration - the link which includes the full path.

In terms of duplicates, it's likely that has happened because of your iTunes library. Does it have duplicates also?

Pulse July 20, 2014 23:51 0 votes

i know about the ~/ sytax and i've tried that too.

there are no duplicates in my itunes library. after moving to a new macbook i took my old rekordbox library with me where the /Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/... path is hardcoded in the datafile.edb. The new macbook (maybe because of different OS X version or language settings) uses /Users/... to reference my tracks in itunes (probably the old one used /Volumes/...).

i think the problem could be solved my changing the referenced path in rekrodbox so the itunes path matches the path in datafile.edb.

another way i might be able to solve this problem is to make rekordbox move my music to another folder by moving it myself and then pointing rekordbox to it but i haven't found a way how to move my music folder and then point rekordbox to the new one without having to relocate every single track with the "missing tracks manager"

I hope this additional information is helpful to the problem solution

Cheers

Victor

Victor Tibo July 21, 2014 19:37 0 votes