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Topic: Filepath problems in xml database.

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Hi all,
I just finished an all night data recovery from my external drive, after the darn thing crashed and this morning found out that the database that I had been so meticulously saving and re-saving incase of something like this.....contains all my files but with a filepath leading to the now no longer existent drive....do I have to edit the whole document....or is there a way to create a filter folder with the filepath's as is?......a Cstollian effort or one like it would be helpful....thanks in advance!
 
Inviato Wed 11 Jun 08 @ 10:59 am
You don't need to do anything... as long as the path after the drive letter is the same then everything will be fine. The drive letter is replaced with what ever the official drive letter is when it is connected to the system. It does not physically replace it in the file, but in a virtual sense when VirtualDJ goes to access the files.
 
And thank God for that. I had been going through the same thing trying to change my drive letters to save the database until I realized it doesn't matter. Thumbs up to VDJ for that.
 
Well, I just moved all the files to make the path similar but am still not getting the info......something else I should be doing?
 
Is your XML file on the hard drive as well?

And watch out: i think VDJ interprets "LAlala" and "lalaLA" differently, but i'm not sure about that.
 
yes.....in the vdj folder in my documents.....I guess al just give in and recalculate everything, I don't have that many files....only about 14,000 so al just get what I get and the rest will have to be on the fly.....thanks!
 
Ok, I guess I am missing something some where --- you had an external drive that you rebuilt the files on to and stored the previous backed up XML to the root location of that external drive? So, now when you launch VDJ does that drive show in the Browser tab, bottom section where the drop-down is ? Have you run a 'Check' on that database from the Browser tab ?
 
I don't see anywhere where you mention you are using Version 5.xx, we're all assuming this. Where were the files before this happened? Could you give an example of one the paths to a song..

14,000 songs is a lot to me. I'd be crying, busting my balls to get it resolved.
 
Sawa basi, let me start again...
External Crashes (G:)....Lenny recovers the files.....puts them on the lappy(C:)....He also transfers the xml file onto the vdj folder in C-doc, though it contains info about some files which are not there since not all could fit on the C:Drive. Opens Vdj, finds the folder, adds to the database, recurses( and curses), then restarts and finds no info...apart from the bpm which the songs come with anyway. He then opens the vdj folder and notices the newly formed database file with some of the newly recursed files....he opens the other one he'd been saving for this typa situation and the only difference he sees is one is 506 and filepaths are G:Ngoma...and the other new one-510 and filepaths C:Ngoma.....He also tries creating filter folders with isscan=1 and filepath info but to no avail....... So he decides to open up a heineken, re-watch the day's soccer matches and though not giving up, just recalculate the info again, while staying up for the second straight night...
 
lennyndegwa wrote :
Sawa basi, let me start again...
External Crashes (G:)....Lenny recovers the files.....puts them on the lappy(C:)....

See that is the part you left out... I was under the assumption you recovered the files to another External...

So, in your My Documents... rename the VirtualDJ Database v5.xml to VirtualDJ Database v5.xml.old
Then take the back up file of your external drive's database file and rename it VirtualDJ Database v5.xml
Now launch VirtualDJ and see what happens? Do not do add to database or anything... just open VirtualDJ.
Enter * in the Search box -- what do you see? And do the files load ?

If yes, good to go.... if not close VirtualDJ, open the database file in notepade -- find and replace the G: with C:
Then relaunch VirtualDJ. Now what ?
 
cstoll wrote :
open the database file in notepade -- find and replace the G: with C:
Then relaunch VirtualDJ. Now what ?


This is what I had done with some files just to try it out......some of the info came back i.e bpm and length but the cue points were absent, so it made more sense to just let the bpm dog loose, I will however look into this further and let you guys know what I find out, seems like I can also use an xml editor to change a few things that might help....dunno but it shouldn't be this hard......I did what I was supposed to do no? save the database file??? oh well! Thanks Chris.......
 


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