Halo, I have the following problem:
I've been djing on an older MacBook Pro for several months with RB DJ. The files were all analysed correctly and I had the previews available.
Now someone spilled water over the old MacBook unfortunately and that thing was completely done. It didn't work any more, so I had to buy a new MacBook Pro. I installed RB DJ on that new MB Pro. Now the thing is, I don't have access to my old system any more because I can't run it on the new MB Pro. So I cannot export the database.
I already copied the whole Pioneer folder from my user library to the new drive.
But the crazy thing is, the complete playlists are there and everything, but not the analysis files nor the previews.
And what's even worse is the fact that RB DJ still considers these files as analysed, so it won't analyse them again and thus every track had once been analysed now shows as 0 BPM with no cues and whatsoever. Until I hit reanalyse. But I can't reanalyse every track.
So I'm asking you if you could kindly help me where to find these analysis files on the old drive and get them back into my new Rekordbox DJ installation.
Any help??
Thanks !!
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Well, there's more than just that -- if you copied the data over from one computer to another, unless you have the same user name on each computer, you'll have additional problems.
What folders did you already copy?
Thank you for your quick answer!
I copied the folder /Users/Library/mc (my user name)/Application Support/Pioneer/rekordbox
There are two folders:
~/Library/Pioneer/rekordbox/
~/Library/ApplicationData/Pioneer/rekordbox/
The first contains the database and all the analysis data / artwork (and a few other small files), the second holds all your preference files. If you missed anything within, it would have a problem. Likewise, if you have a different username on the new computer, the settings / database files are all looking for the old path on the old computer. See this guide to update those files.
Thank you very much for the folders! Actually I have two different user names and as you said I could get into trouble I decided to reanalyze all my tracks. This should make all the previews and bpms available again to me.
Let us know if you need any further assistance!
I will! Thank you!