I’ve looked through as many guides and watched as many videos as possible to try and sort this out but no joy. Hoping someone has some wisdom for me…… my situation is as follows:
Previously running Mac High Sierra and rekordbox 5, music all stored in iCloud. Last week Mac OS became corrupted so I did a clean install of Mojave and rekordbox yesterday and now I’m looking at restoring the database (cue points, artwork, beat grids etc), although the most recent rekordbox backup file I have is from December 2017. Not a huge issue I thought as I recently exported my entire collection to a USB and discovered the "How to recover music from an export device" guide. Whilst the “import playlist” functionality works well (after two go’s to get all the cue point data imported), the issue is that the file structure on the USB is not the same as where my music is located in iCloud…. and relocating 3,500 tracks doesn’t appear to be a quick process…
I spent a number of hours yesterday doing the “display all missing files”, managing to batch relocate a number of tracks (down from 3500 to 1600 missing files). It’s a slow process though as RB doesn’t always find as many files in the same location that I would expect…..so I had a go trying another way in the hope it would be quicker…. I backed up my database with yesterday’s progress and then tried to restore my RB database from the December 2017 backup, figuring it might be quicker to do that and then backfill 2018 and 2019 tracks afterwards. I tried two methods of restoration - 1) I wholesale transferred the contents of the zip file into both the pioneer library and application support folders and 2) tried the “restore library” button in RB, selecting datafile.edb. Unfortunately both processes ended up with the same result - all the tracks and cue points loaded into RB, minus the artwork and beat grids….. At that point I thought I’d just revert to the backup I made yesterday and carry on with the long process of relocating files…. Same problem - no artwork or beat grids…. Ugh
So I guess my questions are:
If I were to recover the database from the USB is there a quicker way of mass relocating my library given the file structure differs between USB and iCloud? Can I somehow merge the tracks in iCloud/iTunes with the RB data from the USB? Or something similar?
Has anyone else experienced the issue that RB seemingly does not find as much tracks in the same location that you might expect?
If the mass relocation is not possible with this file structure, what is the specific database restoration process that I should follow? And should I expect artwork and beat grids to come back with a library restore?
Is there another method that I’ve missed?
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If your backup was created with File > Library > Backup Library, the restoration process should have been to point the File > Library > Restore Library to the zip file, not to replace the contents of the rekordbox folder with those of the zip.
Try that first.
Hi Pulse, I just tried this process and whilst the library loads up with cue points, still no beatgrids or artwork...?
Those should have come along for the ride... did you possibly change your username in the process? It could be the files are restored to a different location (although they should be in a relative path).
I don't think so no. I guess there could have been changes since my Dec 2017 backup but it is doing the same thing (no beatgrids/artwork) when I restore a backup that I made post reinstall of Mac OSX / Rekordbox 5 having relocated half of my collection
Update: It seems that if you rename the backup zip file it impacts whether beatgrids and artwork carries over as one of my two recent backups since reinstall contained the recently relocated tracks with beatgrids etc. I didn't have any joy with the Dec 2017 backup so am now slowly working my way through relocating 1300 remaining tracks. It seems strange that it is isn't detecting more tracks from the same folder location though.....
back to my other questions of:
is there a quicker way of mass relocating my library given the file structure differs between USB and iCloud? Can I somehow merge the tracks in iCloud/iTunes with the RB data from the USB? Or something similar?
Has anyone else experienced the issue that RB seemingly does not find as much tracks in the same location that you might expect?