Hi
I want to switch the location of my music to a bigger hard drive. I have around 15,000 which have been analazyed in Rekordbox (which took ages btw) and now i want to transfer them to a bigger external hard drive.
I have read posts before about transfering to a new PC etc - this is not what i want to do, i want to simply use a new hard drive, and will still be using the same laptop and the same rekordbox software which will show the collection i have already analazyed but now in a different location.
i doubt its as simple as copy and pasting the collection from rekordbox to the new hard drive, but i really really do not want to go through the whole process of analyzing the tracks from scratch again, as i think it took around 5 days the last time!
Any help greatly appreciated
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I don't have experience from moving the library to an external drive, but it should not be that different from moving it internally on the computer. Try with just a few tunes, say ten, and move them to the new location. Re-locate the tracks through the "Display missing files", select all, locate one and Rekordbox will prompt you if you want to re-locate the rest according to that position. If all went well, just proceed with the rest.
Thank u Henrik, I will give that a go....
Just go slowly so you don't risk having to re-analyze all songs again ;)
defo mate, that would be my worst nitemare having to do all that from scratch again :(
Why not use a cloning software to duplicate the contents of your current drive to the new drive? Provided it has the same name, the database will locate the library and bob's your uncle.
In other words copy and paste all the files into the new hard drive, name the hard drive label the same as the old one and give it the same drive letter?
Or would it have to specifically be "cloning software" that u refer to? I've never heard of cloning software but i suppose I can read up on it
No - copy/pasting is not recommended when transferring large quantities of data like a drive duplication. Use cloning software or file mirroring software to achieve this.
For Mac, I prefer CarbonCopyCloner. On PC, DriveImage XML.
Cheers for the info Pulse, I will give it a go
Carbon Copy Cloner is great, but not free anymore. SuperDuper! also works perfectly and is free.
I think CCC is free for 30 days, is it not? (I forget, I paid for mine!)
Just another quick question on this. U both gave me good advise on using clone software which as we speak is in progress transferring my tracks to a bigger external hard drive.
I also have a smaller memory stick with around 14gb of tracks on it. I don't want to clone this drive as such, if I copy and paste the tracks (which have all been analysed in rekordbox), can I just copy them to the new hard drive I got and import the drive (to find new files), will this mean I don't have to analyse again.
Or is it best to copy and paste the tracks to the new hard drive, go into rekordbox and search for missing files , then update the location of the files from there (in small chunks possibly). I'm just trying to find a way round have to re-analyse the tracks again
@Declan > It doesn't quite work that way - you can't just copy the data as it's from a separate database. I've not tried this, but you may be able to load that database, export it, then open the other database and import it. That would potentially keep the waveforms and memory points as well.