playlist delete

hi all,

right iv seen threds kind of the same but i cant find an answer, my problem is....

i brought a new pc and transferred everything from rekord box on to new pc from laptop and all working fine. but me being a twat accidentally deleted my lifes worth of playlists on the new pc ffs,, like thousands of tunes n loads of playlists all different genres aswell...the lot.

but im hoping 1 of you will tell because i didnt delete playlist from laptop theres a chance i can retrieve them all back. iv read where if i didint shut new reckord box down n all that id be able to savage the saved data or something but we are way past that coz im a panika and fucked up, and the only way i can think i can get theses back is on old lappy. plz plz help my libraries have never looked more differant

nick gordon April 10, 2020 20:34

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You did the right thing in not closing rekordbox (well, multiple times).

Close rekordbox, open the following folder:

Win 7/8/10: C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Roaming\Pioneer\rekordbox
OSX: /Users/yourusername/Library/Pioneer/rekordbox

You'll see a couple of datafile.backupX.edb files. Grab one of them from before this happened.

Rename datafile.edb to datafile.edb.old
Rename datafile.backupX.edb to datafile.edb (removing .backup)

Open rekordbox and you should find your songs and playlists all recovered.

Pulse April 11, 2020 16:52

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Thanks for the reply but the thing is I did shut record box on the new pc so that datafile is lost but was wondering if I could get the datafile from the old laptop without losing new added tracks on new pc?

Nick Gordon April 12, 2020 08:19 0 votes

You could have opened / closed 2 times without losing the data...

Importing from the old laptop would overwrite the songs on the new one, but here's what you could do... export the songs you currently have in the library to a USB device. Then recover the database from the old computer to the new one. Once things are working properly, import the songs from the USB drive back into the library.

Pulse April 14, 2020 00:35 0 votes