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@chris > Follow my guide here to get the paths in your settings files edited properly. Let me know if that works for you.
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Rekordbox path issue when upgraded to Dropbox Business
Hi everyone - I hope you can help me out here as I am sure there is a fix but I cant find it myself.
Long story short I keep all my Rekordbox / DJ music within folders in a single folder on Dropbox so it is both on my Macbook and in the cloud. on Friday I upgraded my Dropbox account to Business, and now the filepath has changed as there is an extra folder in the way (thus all my work hundreds of hours work in Rekordbox has disappeared). I have tried moving and renaming the folder so it links back to where it should, but i'm not getting anywhere and very worried my playlists, histories, hot cues etc are gone which would be devastating.
Original Path:
users > MY NAME > Dropbox > REKORDBOX FOLDER
New Path:
users > MY NAME > NEW Dropbox > MY NAME FOLDER> REKORDBOX FOLDER
Any help would be amazing, thanks in advance!
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So the first thing you need to do no matter what is backup your entire RB Database. That way all of your analysis and database settings are saved. Not sure if you used RB's move database to get your files over to Dropbox or not. Hopefully you haven't tried to get into your files unsuccessfully more than 3 times or you might have corrupted the automatic backups RB makes of the Database (on a windows machine the extension is .edb). If you are lucky enough to have made backups then all is not lost!!!
Next I would also do an export to Rekordbox.XML. That file will have all of your cue points and beatgrids stored in it as well as the file paths. It is not the RB database but it provides enough insight to help you get back to goodness, even if you had to reanalyze tracks, if you had a good copy of your original DBs Rekordbox.xml file you can get back all of your Cue's and beat grids (overwriting the new analysis with your original work). The new analysis would simply restore the analysis waveforms...
When you have those files safe, close out of RB...
The next thing I would do is recreate your dropbox music file structure locally (copy all your files down to your local drive).
Once you have your files locally, I would then disconnect from Dropbox and startup RB DJ. Most likely you will still see your collection, albeit with exclamations for every track, indicating RB can't find them.
Next step is to use RB to find the tracks on your local drive. Use the Relocate option for all tracks and point to your newly created local copy of your dropbox structure. If the filenames are all the same RB should be able to find all of them. Note you may have to run relocate several times, to find all of them in some special cases (like duplicate entries, etc).
At this point you should see your tracks, grids, and cue points again. If that worked great, you won't need the backups. But remember on a go forward to make them regularly. You can now go ahead and try remapping the RB database to your Dropbox...
If no success then we can look at the database backups and work to repair what's broke. Let me know how you make out with the first few steps, if you are good, share with others!!! If not post back and I'll offer a few suggestions.
Hopefully you are technically inclined and can follow the above, it's not to challenging.
Regards
CRSounds
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I looked over Pulse's document and that looks like it will solve your issue, assuming you haven't gone to far out of control.
I'm going to use some of the techniques he points out to better address some of the DB management that I have been doing. So thanks Pulse for the additional insight into RB DJs backend!.
Chris F, if you are still having issues let me know, I'll be happy to help you out as well!
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