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I am using a Windows 10 laptop and VDJ 8. Both are up to date. I have the basics done (all folders with music are favorite, recursed and added to the search database) and even the tweaks (all VDJ folders and music folders have been added to ownership).
Search works fine until I close VDJ and open it up again. Then all search "settings" are lost and search cannot find a single song...
Is there anything else that needs to be done to get search to remember the music files?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Posted Thu 14 Dec 17 @ 9:19 am

So if the song is on D: go to D:\VirtualDJ\database.xml and open it with an editor.
Now do a search inside the DB for the song you are missing. And if it you can find it, it would be interesting what the "Flag"-Tags values are.
The above gives you 2 possible solutions:
1. If you can not find the song inside the DB, VDJ probably can not write to the database.
2. If you can find the song, the flag value will show you if the song is "in the search db" or not.
Posted Thu 14 Dec 17 @ 9:26 am

:)
All songs are present in the database and all songs have the Flag set to 1.
Posted Thu 14 Dec 17 @ 10:18 am

What about the fields VDJ should search in? You can change them by clicking on the small dot next to the search box. Do they get saved if you change them and reopen VDJ?
Posted Thu 14 Dec 17 @ 10:22 am

VDJ remembers any changes made in the search fields.
I don't know if this helps any, but when I see the songs in the browser, as soon as I type in one single letter in the search box, no more songs are displayed...
Posted Thu 14 Dec 17 @ 10:59 am

Posted Thu 14 Dec 17 @ 11:35 am

I have marked:
- search in current folder
- search all local files
- title
- artist
- genre
- year
Posted Thu 14 Dec 17 @ 11:39 am

So you have to re-add the files to the search database.
Posted Thu 14 Dec 17 @ 12:53 pm

I don't have any dbFlag entries. Only two Flag entries. The first one in the Song line with a value of 65, the second one in the Tags line with a value of 1. Should I also have dbFlag entries?
Posted Thu 14 Dec 17 @ 1:13 pm

65 would indicate video file and hidden from search, so the conclusion is the same, the files had been removed from the search database, and need to be added again. (right-click a folder, batch add to search db)
Posted Thu 14 Dec 17 @ 1:21 pm

I checked: as soon as I add my music folders to the database, the 65 is changed to 64. When I close VDJ, it is still 64. But when I open VDJ again, it is 65 again...
Posted Thu 14 Dec 17 @ 1:30 pm

Any chance it's set to "yes" ?
Posted Thu 14 Dec 17 @ 1:46 pm

Thanks, Phantom.
Posted Thu 14 Dec 17 @ 4:37 pm

Posted Thu 14 Dec 17 @ 4:47 pm

When I moved from a PC to a laptop, I started out with a new (blank) database and added song infos manually.
Posted Thu 14 Dec 17 @ 5:12 pm

If you don't have any music on the c drive, you could try renaming that one.
Posted Thu 14 Dec 17 @ 5:16 pm

I renamed the C:\ database. Same thing: no songs pop up when I enter a letter in the search box, after adding all folders to the database and restarting VDJ.
Curiously, VDJ did not create a new database file after renaming the old one to .bak.
Posted Thu 14 Dec 17 @ 5:27 pm

Any VDJ 7 database on the drive as well?
Posted Thu 14 Dec 17 @ 6:08 pm

It seems VDJ resets the flags when starting up.
Posted Thu 14 Dec 17 @ 6:22 pm

Maybe this is irrelevant, but just in case I thought I might mention it.
Is there a setting (that I can change) that tells VDJ to reset the search database at startup?
Posted Thu 14 Dec 17 @ 8:46 pm