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Topic: Can't hot-swap external drive

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Hi all,

I'm on Mac. I'm experiencing a problem where VDJ will not read libraries off external drives that are connected after the software has already started. If the drive is mounted before I start Virtual DJ, then the libraries show up fine. If I take over from another DJ and plug my drive into the Mac, the libraries don't show up until VDJ is re-started. Obviously this presents a problem because the music is already going. I've been having to play a song off my phone to restart Virtual DJ to get my libraries to show up, which is not ideal.

Any ideas on how to make VDJ recognize a new drive and load its libraries and virtual folders without restarting?
 

Posted Sat 12 Nov 16 @ 6:02 pm
Are you sure the other dj's virtualdj is up to date?
This was a problem before, but has been fixed a while ago (I don't remember exactly which version anymore)
 

when you reswap the drives. and the drive letters changing each time. thats what happens in windows a lot. with mac not sure. and make you you unplug the drive after you tell osx to stop it. or it will get corrupted
 

Mac has no drive letters, and on windows it doesn't matter for vdj if they do change
 



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