How does one backup the user library database (tags etc?)
I recently got maschine and have a habit of reinstalling windows frequently. I've been able to move my library over to an external drive but I fear the next time I reinstall, all the content will be available, just without tags. How can I save the tag database too in my backups?
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My KOMPLETE KONTROL Browser is Empty or Incomplete – Native Instruments (native-instruments.com)
This article is about reinitializing the Maschine and KK DB, but steps 7 and 8 (under the windows section) gives you the location of the Favorites.db. Back that up and restore it after fresh install!
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The Tags are saved inside the wav files as metadata, you can't lose them.
More nerdy info/proof in this thread, ignore op, and just read my comments.
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My KOMPLETE KONTROL Browser is Empty or Incomplete – Native Instruments (native-instruments.com)
This article is about reinitializing the Maschine and KK DB, but steps 7 and 8 (under the windows section) gives you the location of the Favorites.db. Back that up and restore it after fresh install!
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thanks for the response! i have looked into this and im fearful this would only backup things ive marked as favorites and not the entire db. can you confirm?
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The Tags are saved inside the wav files as metadata, you can't lose them.
More nerdy info/proof in this thread, ignore op, and just read my comments.
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wow, that solves all questions i have! haha! seems the favorites db is just used for favorites. thanks for this!
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I'm sure the the developers aren't looking for any new feature requests at the moment but that would be a nice one for them to just automatically backup that favorites.db file.
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Hi D-One,
do you know how tags are applied (or where they are stored) for NON wavfiles? Like tags for instrument presets, or snapshot, etc.
Thanks
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They are always stored in whatever file type it uses, for instruments/plugins it's on the NKS patch (.nksf). Not sure what you mean by snapshot.
What are you trying to do exactly?
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Snapshot as in when you click from KK file -) save as - it creates a snapshot (nksn)
I want to start fresh building my library mostly using premade sounds/instrument (kontakt library : noire,rickenbass,massive,absynth, etc), tweaking the sounds to my liking and then saving my preset (using snapshot or saving the instrument as a user preset). Then use tags to navigate easily within the KK browser.
I was wondering if each snapshots or userpreset retain the tags in their file or if the tags were saved elsewhere!
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OHH, of course, sorry... Kontakt is not my specialty. Try it, save it somewhere else, and add the folder as a user lib to confirm.
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