Recently I have found that my crates keep moving around.

I set up my crates in the order i want and then i shut down serato, then when i open it again my crates have moved and ones i have deleted reappear.

This is really annoying and the songs are in the wrong place.

All my tracks are on my laptop, not an external.

Would appreciate some help, thanks.

Where are they stored in on the internal drive?

Do you have overviews built on all of your music?

Have you removed all of the bad / corrupt files?

They are all stored in a folder called music on my mac's harddrive.

All the music have overviews built.

There are probably some bad/corrupt files hanging around in serato, I havent deleted them all.

try deleting the neworder.pref file located in the scratchlive folder. It will make your crates order alphabetical and then you can arrange them how you would like them. Once you close Scratchlive it should write the new order to the new "neworder.pref" file

Right, tried what you have said above, it hasnt helped though.
It worked as you say above but after a little while the same problems keep happening, crates keep moving around, old crates pop back in, and the orders within the crates move around.

I want to sort this before I spend hours sorting my crates out how I like them. Any ideas?

What about the bad/corrupt files you mentioned before?


Thanks
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if you have them in your library they could indeed cause this. You will know which ones are the bad / corrupt files because they have an icon next to them that looks like a cd with a crack / lightning bolt through it.

You will find those files after building overviews. Have you built overviews on ALL of your music?

yes overviews built on all. There are some corrupt files, probably 40 odd. I will delete them, and then rebuild overviews to be sure.

Is it the total delete (off the hardrive as well) or just out of the library?

Thanks

just out of the library.

What could have happened is that it corrupted your database file. If it has, things will still move. If so we can rename. Hopefully it isn't corrupt and deleting those files from the library will make the difference.

ok ive deleted all corrupt files, now going to rebuild all files. Will take ages so will leave it overnight and see what happens tomorrow!

sweet man, let me know:)

done a few gigs, so far so good!! I havent imported any new tunes yet, it often goes crazy after that, so I will report back after that, hopefully its all good!

hey man

ok its happened again, same old problem. changes i made to crates disappeared and old crates have come back in the order is messed up again.

I have noticed a load of files have become listed as corrupt now. It worked for a bit and now same problem.

What now?

Thanks

any ideas then?????

Where are you getting your songs from? It sounds like everytime you import a new batch of music this happens. You also find corrupt files everytime.