Your losing the DJs, DO SOMETHING!

Been a loyal NI user (maschine, komplete, and Traktor) for nearly 20 years now, but your trying my patience. My list of grievances are probably well documented in the multiple discussions on these boards but I lack the time to read and research deeply; I just want a traktor that works intuitively more than it does now.

I keep my whole collection on an external drive. I also save my settings there (mixer, layouts etc).
1. Each time Traktor gets a version update, I get prompted to re-import my collection and despite saying yes, it defaults to an generic collection traktor insist on creating under my C drive documents folder. Every f-ing time!!!!!
  1. I then need to manually point to the collection on my drive and, god forbid, if it's not been backed up each time I make a change, it will NOT HOLD my collection metadata forcing me to re-do all the hours of work spent between updates making queue points, loops, and correcting tags. Come-on! I haven't used Serrato nor the other platforms but I can't imagine this is common between all DVS systems. FIX THIS..
    1. Make it stop autosaving to local C: documents whenever we manually choose an external drive. Have it autosave there instead, seems logical.
    2. Same goes for settings.. if we external storage users point to a settings forlder other than c: documents, have it automatically update that one..why is this so hard to understand?
  2. File not found, is the bane of my existance. No matter how well I save and even after fixing file locations (re-finding the file in traktor), it will still through up the file not found error nearly every damned time I open a file from my external source. I'm sure there is an explanation and you will provide a clever KB about what I'm doing wrong here, but I'll argue back.. I'm the customer, don't make me read your KBS and spend all day fixing something that you should have corrected years ago. When the collection points to an external location, that's where the F traktor needs to look for it going forward.. I'm not moving the files, traktor is just to dim to look in the place I told it to.
2. Mixer?
  1. It's been what, 15 years now since the Z2? Is there something in the works? I've been patient watching all my serato peers go from one cool new toy to the next all with nice big buttons, and enhanced features that traktor has yet to do. Worse, those on serato just plug and play these features from their new mixers, yet I have to be programmer to figure out how to map my Z2 to any midi functions they have at the tip of their fingers out of the gate!
  2. And one last question.. who (assuming not a trick or scratch dj) thought reducing the size of the queue buttons on the newest controller was an improvement? Nice fat buttons on the older controllers, but now you need to have precise thin-tipped fingers to activate your queus, loops etc.. again, the opposite of what the now industry standard ranes, pioneers, and all other controllers and mixers are doing. We want big fat and fast buttons so we can trick and juggle like our peers on the other side of the house.

Now, back to my hours needed to re-locate most of my damned collection again thanks to version 4.3 wiping out all my changes since July.

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DJ Robin Sherman

And no, spelling is not my thing. I'm a DJ not a librarian.

KrackityJones

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myalteredsoul

you’re*

It would be an editor who focuses on grammar and punctuation. A librarian manages collections of media such as books and music.

myalteredsoul

you can setup symlinks in windows to point those directories to your external drive.

The Sarge

LOL @myalteredsoul and again we have to do IT-things to get the software works which calls itself "such a huge Pro-thing which Top-DJs use" ? why doesn´t it simply do what we entered in the preferences instead of resetting so many things and doing unasked things with our collection? that´s more work to do every single .x-Update instead of doing our so loved DJ-job/-work! I´m more´n´more angry about myself for rise the NI-flag, but got fooled again with this Traktor-thing, as fooled in the past with several NI-products by discontinue, destroying unasked NKS-hardware to a simple masterkesyboard for $1000 and so on… And yes, I can theoreticaly go to another developer, but sadly it´s just a hobby to get more healthy, so there´s not the money to buy a Pioneer now, especially if I look what little bucks I´ll get if I want to sell my S4Mk3

djcoryminto

Every time i upgrade from 4.1 to 4.2 to 4.3, I choose the appropriate location on the external disk (e.g., Disk Name\Native Instruments\Traktor 4.3 (the same methodology applies to both mac & PC) and don't have any issues. During the install process, you have to create that empty folder (naming it yourself, ideally call it "Traktor 4.3"), and ideally put it next to the prior version inside the Native Instruments folder, each in seprate folders (Traktor 4.2, Traktor 4.3 next to each other). Even if you screw up and create the new 4.3 collection in your internal disk's documents folder, so be it, let it finish. After it finally transfers your collection to the new version, save Traktor and close it, and then in Explorere/Finder move the entire folder to your external disk manually, and then re-open Traktor (it will not find a collection now, and create a generic/empty one). Go to preferences, file management, and relocate the root folder to your external disk. Don't forget to do the same for your samples, remix sets, itunes xml, recordings, and stems location (the latter two are located in different parts of the preferences window).

myalteredsoul

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/246064#Comment_246064

you are the one here trying to do something outside of the norm. It’s 2025, space is no longer at a premium. Stre your files locally and set up a proper auto-backup solution if you are using Traktor on multiple devices.

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