Hi there,
My file management is terrible and I have tracks in many different places in my system. I’m trying to move everything into one folder on an external and keep my playlists intact. I’ve uploaded all my files to the Lexicon cloud and I’m trying to figure out how to move them onto this other drive. Is there any advice on how to manage this kind of migration?
Hi! This video explains how moving/renaming files works.
Set up a Target Folder and no subfolder patterns, that will result in moving files all into one folder.
Optionally, you can also let it rename files.
The manual has more info.
I watched that yesterday several times but it seems to require tracks to be put in the “Incoming Tracks” section to move them. There are so many folders and places and drives I’m afraid I’ll miss some if I’m manually dragging them in there. They are all already working in the playlists. Is there a way to move them from the playlists? I could drag them into a folder from rekordbox and then drag all the tracks into “Incoming Tracks”
Right click your tracks → Edit → Recipes → Mark as incoming
Is there a way to relocate tracks to new folders according, for example, to existing playlists?
I mean this instead of the subfolder method for incoming tracks.
No, you can’t use playlists as folder names when moving tracks
Hey Christiaan,
I just tried this and it works great - that being said, I noticed that if there’s only one file in the folder, then it deletes the folder after moving the file. Is there a reason for this? I wouldn’t think Lexicon should be deleting folders, it should just be moving the file and that’s it. Fortunately if there’s more than one file in the folder (that I don’t import into Lexicon), it ignores them and doesn’t delete the folder, but I’d prefer that my folder structure be left intact - it’s just somewhat strange behavior for Lexicon to be messing with folders when all I asked it to do is move files. Is there a way to disable that behavior?
Thanks!
Mike
Yeah it does that otherwise it will be leaving empty folders behind which is usually not what you want. Like old empty album folders.
There’s no way to disable that currently
Ok, so just to confirm, it will only delete the folder if it’s totally empty, as in there are no hidden files or anything else like that, correct? I just want to make sure this is completely intended (and safe!) behavior.
I would also suggest that Lexicon NOT delete folders, or at least make this an option because it’s really dangerous to assume it’s ok to delete the folder. In the perfect world you describe where people have their tracks in album folders, it’s relatively safe to assume that it’s ok to delete empty album folders, but many times if you’re using this feature to clean up a big mess, it’s not involving album folders. I’ve worked on many people’s collections and they don’t know what they’re doing and they have music files scattered EVERYWHERE. This functionality could be really dangerous if I were moving the files from a system folder (on a PC) like Downloads, Music, Desktop, etc and those folders happened to be empty - if Lexicon were to delete any of those folders, that would be bad.
Any time something is deleted, the user should be made very aware of what is happening, and preferably be allowed to disable that behavior.
thanks!
Mike
It will only remove them if they are completely empty (with the exception of the macOS .DS_Store file).
I don’t disagree with you, a setting for the behavior is maybe a good idea.
I like that you’re ignoring .DS_Store 