We'll also assume that besides moving your music collection to the new location you DIDN'T made any other changes on the directory structure. Let's assume it's now on the D:\Music folder. Notice that I said that the file you should have kept does NOT have the word "LOCAL" on it's filename! B) System after reconstruction Music is on the D:\ drive. If you don't then there's no point to move on. If you HAVE THIS file (not ANY other file) we can keep on. Let's assume it was on C:\Users\YourUserName\Music folder The file you should keep backup was " VirtualDJ Database V6.XML" and it was located inside C:\Users\YourUserName\Documents\VirtualDJ folder. Hit replace all, it will replace all the files that say G:\ with F:\ at once so you dont have to do it manually for every single song.Save as an xml (DO NOT OVERWRITE THE OLD ONE), and copy that database.xml to your new laptop.You don't want to make things easier for us to help you, do you ? :P I would rather prefer answering me with 1,2,3,4,5 like I've asked you (I had my reasons) but anyway, here we go: A) System before reconstruction Music was on the C:\ drive. In the REPLACE box on the bottom, type in the drive letter of the computer you want it to be transferred to. (unless all of your music is loose inside the drive then only include whatever letter your drive is. Only The Drive Letter and the folder that the music is all in. In the top FIND box, enter where your music currently is, ONLY the root folder. In Sublime in the file bar navigate to Find > Replace. Copy everything in "database.xml" and paste it into sublime text. Its a powerful text editor normally used by coders. Now, download a program called Sublime Text. ***** For Pro Users, there are database management tools that can help a lot with issues like that ones. Then, your cue points are not lost once the virtualdj database will be upgraded too. **** After the migration, you can move your files and change the folder structure by VirtualDJ browser. *** Keep a database.xml backup, its very important if something wrong happens. I am not sure you can do it on the OS drive or main drive (C:\). ** To external drives and HD partitions, you can use the windows disk management tool to change the drive letter. The colon and backslash are important to avoid replacement errors. * If the drive letter changes, open the database.xml file with windows notepad, and replace the drive letter with edit > replace. After that, "check" and "clean" your database. If you want to migrate from an internal drive to an external drive, you must keep the folder structure and filepaths, and copy all data from main database to the local database, except from the header part. The main database must be keeped on /documents/virtualdj folder. VirtualDJ database is based on filepaths, so if you want to keep your cue points (or keys, bpms, dates, etc.) to your new machine, the paths can not be changed. If your media files are not on external drives/HD partitions and your database is located at /documents/virtualdj folder - a "main" database called "virtualdj database v7.xml" - you must have on your new computer the same folder structure to all your media files. Go to the disk root and copy all folder and files (including the local database) to the new HD partition or external drive. If your media files are on a HD partition also with a local database, It is a simple copy-and-paste operation. Well, this always works on my both computers with VDJ 7 and WinXP and 7. VirtualDJ local database usually changes the drive letter if you plug your external drive on a new system and the letter changes. If you have an external drive with a local database called "virtualdj local database v7.xml", I think there is nothing to do.
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