Library Backup

If I'm reading you correctly, you have two copies of the your music - one on your internal storage and one on an external drive. You've tried to add the songs from the external drive but RB is suggesting you need to reanalyse.

If so - don't add from the external drive as doing this is adding a new track to the library. You would need to remove the tracks from your internal drive and then relocate them within RB.

My workflow usually is to download tracks to my local drive and transfer to my NAS before adding to RB. Then analysing/preparing cues etc.

I know you say you've backed up your library - I presume using the option within RB... which is always wise before taking any action like this.

Hi tw332

I've moved my database to my external HDD.
So, are you saying I now need to delete all my music stored on my internal SSD and then relocate to the external HDD?

And this will import all analysis data, cues, etc?

Yes to both... but just to be sure, maybe instead of deleting the music stored on your internal drive, move it to another folder (just in case, that way you can always move it back if something goes wrong).

Once you've deleted (or moved) the tracks from the internal drive, try to select a track in RB, you should see an exclamation mark that indicates that it can't be found.

You can then either:

• select a number of tracks in the playlist window and right mouse click > Relocate > Navigate to the location of the track on your external drive > RB will re-link that track and prompt if you want to try and locate the other selected tracks from the same location;
• select File > Display All Missing Files > RB will scan through your collection and identify all missing tracks > Again navigate to the location of the tracks on your external drive > RB will attempt to re-link all missing tracks (helps if the folder structures are the same).