Hi,
I recently moved all of my music to an external hard drive to make space on my laptop (MacBook Pro). However I have repeatedly had the issue of missing files, and therefore had to spend hours relocating files as they are all in different download folders within the hard drive.
My question is if there is a way around this issue? Or is it that I cannot simply direct my music from an external hard drive? If that’s the case, are there any solutions to the issue that doesn’t involve filling my internal hard drive? Thanks!
@Kiernan > Did you move multiple folder parents, or did you simply move the parent folder?
This is an example on a parent folder move:
c:\user\Music\blah > x:\Music\blah
If you moved multiple folders to different places, eg. consolidating files into one folder, then that would require multiple relocation actions.
Here's a video outlining mass-relocation.
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Your Rekordbox software made a file routing to your tracks from the internal HDD. When you copy-paste the tracks on to a external HDD, the existing file routing in Rekordbox does not match anymore. This gives the missing files problem.
What I did is simply empty the whole Rekordbox file mapping on the left, and drag and drop back the files from my external drive. And then some hours of analising all again. This gives the new and correct file routing from the external hard drive. It's like a clean restart, but with the certitude that you don't have any missing files.
I do not know what happens with personalised tracklists, and I have no experience with migrating Rekordbox maps or tracklists from drive to drive. Maybe Pulse can share his experience here.
For me it's a bigger loss that Rekordbox, and Serato too, don't automaticly add and analise new tracks which are copied on to the external hard drive. You have to do this manualy each time. Hopefully Rekordbox will get some kind of incremential file update in the future.
Hi, Thanks for the swift reply!
That kind of makes sense, however I'm still learning the terminology. When you say 'empty the whole Rekordbox file mapping on the left', where exactly is this and how is it done? If you could break down the process into something a rookie could read that would be awesome, but no problem if not.
I've had a look through preferences and switched the 'auto export' on and added my external hard drive under 'database management'. Just wondering if that will help?
Cheers,
Kiernan