Spare Hard drive problem

[Kierclarke]

Hi All
Wonder if any of you know??

I am wanting to back all my music up on a spare hard drive..

I got told that there is a way you can transfer the music from hard drive to spare hard drive within Cross DJ so you dont mess up the configuration and you can use both hard drives without importing every time..

Wondering if anyone knows how to do it?

Hope that all makes sense..

Regards Kieran

[MusicMeister]

As long as the drive structures (folder/files) are identical, if you simply rename the hard drive to be the same thing, on the mac it seems to work - as crazy as it sounds.

On windows, my guess is to simply assign the same drive letter. It's worked with other software in the past, but I haven't actually tried this with Cross or under Windows 8/7/Vista.

There may be another way to make it happen, but this is the 'sneaky' way of tricking most things to work.

[djphaidon]

Here's my example, and I recently did this this week, so I know that for the most part it will work.

I reformatted and reloaded OSX 10.8.x onto my DJ laptop because the software RAID I had setup was acting a little finicky. I copied my entire hard drive to a spare and reloaded the OS onto a 120 gb SSD. My second SSD was the music folder.

Because the previous folder structure was different from how it had been when the two drives were raided, when I transfered over all my music and the Cross library information, the files weren't found using the resolve all missing files option in Cross. Well enough, I figured that would happen.

Instead of deleting all your files and starting over with a new library, simply "relocate" the files on the new hard drive when you are inside the resolve missing tracks window. When you do this, most of your files will be found on the first pass as long as you kept the same folder structure. Out of around 6000 tunes, 500 were missed on the first search, so pretty good.

You can apply this same procedure to exporting songs in your library to externals. Simply copy the songs that you want to copy, and use relocate inside resolve missing tracks. When you do this, it will update your library to the new path.

The only thing I'm not sure about is whether or not the files will show up if the external is not attached, but perhaps someone else can shed some light on that.

[djdubc]

this would be a great addition for mixvibes +1