Collection move to new PC - How do I stop Traktor overwriting my Beatgrid Markers

Hausmeister K

After moving my Traktor music-collection to a new PC, I now have the problem that Traktor re-analyzes every track I load into a deck. During the re-analyze traktor overwrites every white Beatgridmarker I had manually set on the old PC, but not the green Cuemarkers. When I set Traktor not to analyze tracks that are loaded into decks, the part of the screen where you can see the whole track's waveform stays black, and I also can't have that, I need the additional Info.

How do I set Traktor to analyze the tracks but not overwrite/delete my previously set white markers?

Demus

You have to copy the whole Traktor documents folder that represent the version that you are using to the documents folder of the new PC. So, it won't be searching for the missing analyzed files.

Hausmeister K

As far as I can remember, I transferred every file, just as described in the NI tutorial. Beforehand I made backups of all subfolders of
C/user/____/documents/Native Instruments
C/user/____/Music/Traktor
and transfered all files to the new PC.

The old PC ran the 32Bit version 2.11.0, the new PC has the latest 64Bit version 2.11.3, that's the only thing I can think of, that may cause some problems.

What specific file stores the old analyze data?

dariodelima

Did you rename the old traktor 2.11.0 to Traktor 2.11.3. Since you using 2.11.3 on new laptop and not 2.11.0. Reason is in your newly creates Traktor documents you don't have the analyzed info, so when loading a track traktor does not have the info so then it will need to re-analyze. Make sure you copy the whole traktor folder from the documents. You can use 2.11.0 folder for 2.11.3 copy the traktor 2.11.0 folder from your old pc onto a usb. On the new PC go to documents/ Native Instruments. In there locate your traktor 2.11.3 folder delete it. Then rename the traktor 2.11.0 folder you copied to usb, rename it to Traktor 2.11.3 and replace the one you deletes and you good to go. Open traktor. Make sure the path where your music is stored on new laptop is the same as on old laptop, else you will need to relocate files from withing in traktor.

red_nick

If you're not able to copy across the whole folder like the others have said, when performing analysis, use special and don't select BPM

Hausmeister K

@dariodelima: On the new computer there is only the 2.11.3 folder, and I did not create a separate folder named 2.11.0. I copied every file from the old PC's 2.11.0 folder into the new PC's 2.11.3 folder, so every file from the old install should already be there on the new PC's install.

@red_nick: when I set Traktor like shown in your photo, the part of the screen that shows the full track's waveform stays black due to traktor having no analyze data. When I tick the box at 'BPM' but not at 'Set Beatgrid', the white marker gets deleted, and also the part of the screen stays black.
I already tried several combinations of checkmarks in this analyze window, but none yields the results I search for.

I still have all data from the old PC, so I could try re copying the file with all the analyze data into the new install, to see if that changes something, but I need to know what file contains the old analyze data. I just want to copy that specific file and not everything into the new install, due to having added several tracks since, and I dont want to overwrite anything new with something old.

Hausmeister K

Just to clarify, with 'Part of the Screen that shows the whole track's waveform' I refer to this: