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URGENT: Missing files - New laptop - Different HD name issue

Hello, so I have a new mac and the HD name is different to where all my previous files were stored. I'm talking about my entire HD. All my files were missing. I've since tried to relocate and found about 2000 or 6000 files but this is too painful of a process.

Thing it's just the route HD name that has to be updated which would then pickup all the tracks but how to do this to all? 

All the files are split up into all different locations within the initial folders so when I try to relocate it doesn't seem to find them all, only a couple of the time. I've been doing this for hours and should be getting ready for a gig. Is there a simple way to simply change the HD name - they are all in their right seperate folders but it's just the HD name that needs to be changed.

Any help asap would be appreciated

Simon Bird

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To help explain, I kind of have folders split up for downloads monthly or there abouts numbered or names different months. So when I select all the missing files and try to relocate, it only seems to pickup the couple of files that might only be in that same folder. 

Another issue that may be effecting this I've noticed is some files might be doubles so when it searches it stays missing but says it's already found in that location or something. So maybe this stops or effects all the other files being located or something?

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That being said is there a way to obvious see any doubled up files and delete? there could be hundreds so not one by one please

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Simon,

If the only thing that changed was the parent drive name, then yes, you could have done a mass relocation of every song all at once with just a couple of clicks based on the location of the first song.

Try following the steps in my video here.

DO NOT re-import them!

 

 

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Yeah had done all that in the video previously and did it again. Doesn't help unfortunately. That's what I was trying to explain. It found about 2000 of 6000 files but there's still a loads that it won't pick up for some reason even though they are on the computer when I do it manually searching for the single track.

When doing the mass relocation I get the missing file manager then rekordbox found 0 files. 

But as mentioned, what I think is the issue is the top track of the missing ones when searching singly, says this file is already in the collection. So from researching, apparently it's a double, so I think it blocks the search to continue for the rest as it's the top one for some reason. 

You may say well delete that double and try again. But the thing is there seems to be a bunch of doubles but in between a few thousand that aren't but there's no way I can see to know which is a double and which is simply missing. They all just have the yellow ! mark.

If i go through the missing ones and choose a random one to relocate and search, then relocate all, but it might only find like 10 files that were in the folder where that one was but it doesn't find any in other folders.

I can't search for the whole remainder 4000 missing files because a couple might be doubles but how am I meant to know or remove the doubles or know which aren't. I can't just look through it all and delete because there's thousands of files. Any ideas? Is there an obvious way to view/delete doubles without doing it one by one?

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"the issue is the top track of the missing ones when searching singly, says this file is already in the collection"

Did you somehow import them again AFTER you moved them? That's why the auto-relocate isn't working.

Sort by date, remove anything you imported after the move / renaming debacle, then perform the relocation.

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