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I moved my music from my internal hard drive onto an external hard drive. And when I start VDJ it no longer plays on my virtual folders, how can I go about inserting them back in without having to start all over from scratch ?

Or, do I have to start all over again from scratch and what would I have to do exactly , thanks for any help.
 
Posté Fri 28 Aug 09 @ 12:20 am
if I am not mistaken (now granted I have only been using VDJ for a short time but this is what I have noticed with mine). if you are using say your internal drive on your computer, and an external drive, VDJ will create a database file for BOTH DRIVES. you should be able to just copy your database file off of your internal to your external and be ok. someone please correct me if I am wrong.





Michael
 
You should have a database file on your internal drive in your My Document folder (e.g. C:\My Documents\VirtualDJ\Virtual Database V6.XML). Did you move this to your external drive with your music? If not, you need to. Then use Notepad or an XML editor to replace all references to "C:\" with the drive letter of your external drive. This database file tells VDJ where to locate your music, among other things.
 
Hey I noticed in my virtual database , I also have virtual databse v.5 aswell as v.6. Should I copy v.5 onto my external drive also , or is that no longer working , with version 6.0.1 ?
 
No longer used with V6.
 
Ok , now would I have to change the file path on thousands of songs individually ? From C drive to F drive and would that be the entire file path or just the letter of the drive ?

Sorry , I just have no idea how to do his thanks for your help.
 
If you simply copied drive C: to drive D: (for example), including the entire folder structure, so that your music is sitting in the same folder names on D: as it did on drive C:, then you only need to replace "C:\" with "D:\". This an easy substitution to do on your database.

You might want to make a backup of your database before you make changes, just to be on the safe side ;-)

Edit: Meant to say, if using Notepad to edit your database, select Edit dropdown menu, then Replace. You can now replace "C:" with "D:" and replace all occurances of "C:" with your new drive letter in one go... Good luck!
 
Depends on where you stored your files, example.

Music on C: drive was placed C:\Some\Directory\Name\Music\Music file name.mp3

and you moved it to E:\Music

You will need to open the XML file in notepad and do 'Edit' then 'Replace...'

In Find what type C:\Some\Directory\Name\Music\

In Replace with type E:\Music\

Do a replace all.

I would also suggest before making any changes to the XML file you sould make a backup copy of it just in case you need mess up and need to restore the file.
 
HKNYC wrote :
Ok , now would I have to change the file path on thousands of songs individually ? From C drive to F drive and would that be the entire file path or just the letter of the drive ?

Sorry , I just have no idea how to do his thanks for your help.


Use Notepad or a XML Editor with this you can there use a replace function in the editmodus it's easy and fast.

search: C:\mydocument\music
replace: F:\music

Important is that you have exactly the same Directory Structure without Mydocument on your new external Drive F:\

Make before a Backup from your VirtualDJDatabaseV6.xml

Or explain us who was the music on Drive C and what is the new directory structure of your new drive F:

Mike
 


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