Power failure, Collection corrupt how to get old backup (Pro4) ?

The Sarge

Hello Traktor fans,
I just had a disaster: power failure while the collection was being saved

When the power came back on, I started Traktor and got the message that the collection was “corrupt” and a new one would be created. This is now completely empty

Question for you now:
how do I get the version I saved last night into Traktor? I don't want to start everything from scratch again

TraktorPro4, Windows 11

Greetings
The Sarge!

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lord-carlos

You copy one of the collection.nml files from the backup folder and replace the one from the root folder.

~/Documents/Native Instruments/Traktor X.X.X/

Import might also work, never tried that.

lord-carlos

Yeah, with every close Traktor creates a backup. Take a look at ~/Documents/Native Instruments/Traktor X.X.X/Backup or something like that.

The Sarge

ok, I found such files, started Traktor but still nothing inside anymore

do I simply can start IMPORT?

lord-carlos

You copy one of the collection.nml files from the backup folder and replace the one from the root folder.

~/Documents/Native Instruments/Traktor X.X.X/

Import might also work, never tried that.

The Sarge

thanks again @lord-carlos , this thing with replace worked now 👍️ before that I tried import, but that crashed Traktor during importing without any prompt

so in final I´ve lost sorting/ranking/description from Sunday till today morning power-failure, bad, but not so bad compared to start from scratch

I now press CTRL+S after every 5 changes

Sûlherokhh

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/208820#Comment_208820

Smart. I usually do this every 30 to 60 minutes when preparing (new) tracks, playlists or remix sets.