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When all tracks on main pc are scanned for BPM and after each gig where auto gain gets used and remembered. Is it possible to clone this information to backup pc even though that may never have actually played any tracks or scanned any. So basically i keep the backup upto date with the master. Is it a simple DB copy?

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Posted Wed 01 Jan 14 @ 8:12 am
 
Thanks, so really if both PCs are set up the same, same music, same directory i could just copy the main PCs /documents/vdj folder to backup PC after each gig. Also keep a copy in my Skydrive
Only exception maybe the mappers folder as other pc has slightly different key layout?
 
Yes, that's pretty much it.

Apart from your actual music, everything VDJ uses is kept in the documents > virtualdj folder.

The keyboard mapping only applies to any keys you have actually changed so you may be OK just to copy that as well.

Only exception to this is external or pen drives, the database is kept on the root folder of that drive so it can be hot swapped.

Keith
 
Just a thought, does the fact one pc is running win 8.1 and the other xp matter?
 
I think the paths have to match exactly

so it depends were your music is stored

My main machine is windows 8 and my backup is xp

I store all my music in c:\music, so its easy to keep them in sync

I think content unlimited is stored in different locations on win8 / xp

when i copy all my content to my backup xp machine , I just copy the content unlimited folder to were it is expected and it all works
 
As long as the VDJ files are in ducuments > virtualDJ and as long as your music is in the same place eg. C:/music/ then it will work fine.

Keith
 
not in my experience.. I had to change the filepath in the database with find and replace when changing from xp to win 7, xp's filepath is

C:\Documents and Settings\[user name]\My Documents\music

win 7 default location for music is

C:\Users\[user name]\Music

so you need to use find and replace [ctrl + h] in any text editor and do the following

find: "Documents and Settings"
replace: "Users"

find: "My Documents\"
replace: "nothing in the replace box"

select "replace all" so you do it to the entire database, and make sure you have a backup before you do anything to your database as it may not be recoverable if you make a mistake.

if you use a coding text editor that accepts regular expression like adobe brackets (free) or sublime text 3 (freeish) use the following:

find: "Documents and Settings\\(.*)\\My Documents\\Music"
replace: "Users\$1\Music"
 


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