All playlists in Rekordbox are gone

Hi,

I just opened rekordbox to import new tracks from my external HD. Suddenly I notice that all playlists are gone in rekordbox and my collection folder is completly empty. How has this happened? And can I use my USB to recover the playlists? The playlists exported on my USB with sync manager are not completely the same but is better then to start all over.. Please assist..

Thanks in advance!

Tal Groenman October 18, 2019 10:31 Answered

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I'm going to guess one of two things happened...

You're on Windows and connected another drive to the computer, causing the drive lettering for the external to change, so rekordbox couldn't find it when it started up.

Or, you started rekordbox without the drive connected one time so it defaulted to the internal drive / database.

To resolve this, simply open the rekordbox preferences, go to Advanced and at the bottom, click the drop-down to select the drive where the database is located. You'll see the warning about taking time to switch databases, click ok. You should be good to go.

Pulse October 21, 2019 18:07

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Have you renamed anything in the chain from when the tracks were there?

Jay October 19, 2019 17:20 0 votes

Is the database on an external drive?

Pulse October 21, 2019 17:56 0 votes

Hi Jay and Pulse, Thanks for your response. No, I haven’t changed anything in the chain. And yes, the database is on an external HD.

Tal Groenman October 21, 2019 18:04 0 votes

Awesome, you solved it!, it got defaulted to the internal drive. thank you very much!

Tal Groenman October 21, 2019 18:21 1 vote