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Migrating Database to MacOS from a Recovered, Windows-formatted HDD

(I have a specific concern regarding transferring my database that I haven't found asked or answered. If it has, hope you can send me a link to the relevant thread/s...)

My old device running Windows 10 recently conked out. The motherboard's wrecked, but fortunately, the HDD was safe. I bought an encasement for it and its works like an external HDD with a USB 3.0 connection. I bought a Mac and thought I could easily transfer my database, tags, playlists and all, given the HDD was intact, but I can't seem to do it. I'll note at this point that I wasn't able to backup my library prior to my old device conking out.

I've tried File>Library>Restore Library, but can't find it on the HDD, and I also think this won't work since I never backed up my library. I tried manually searching the HDD for the .xml file but still can't seem to find it. I tried "Select a drive" in Preferences>Advanced>Database>Database management, but the HDD doesn't come up even when it's connected properly.

I've also tried connecting the HDD to a laptop running Windows 10 and booting up the rekordbox.exe from the HDD, but my library doesn't come out.

Is there any way I can transfer my database without having to start over? All the music files are intact, but it'll be really tedious adding the playlists one by and one and, for the .wav files, manually inputting the tags.

Any advice would be much appreciated. 

Vincent Pante

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Vincent, the trouble may be that your drive is formatted in such a way that your Mac can't read it (or you don't have the utility on the Mac to read it - some drives like NTFS may require extra software to enable that function).

While it's possible to move it between PC and Mac, you can't just grab the database from the other OS, it either has to go to an external drive first, or be exported as a backup / restored.

Given that you have another computer with Windows, that's your best bet rather than trying to kludge it into the Mac and going through the path change headaches; the best thing to do would be to first install rekordbox on that machine, then migrate your files and folders into the same locations. If the username on the new computer is different than the old, that will create an extra step, but let's start here and give me whatever info you can so I can give you the proper instructions.

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