Hi, so like a complete noob I bought my P4 and jumped straight into downloading, and dropping files into EP and then sorting into various crates. I now have reached a point where I want to move the source files off my laptop and onto an external drive, and I’ve hit the obvious speed bump whereby I now understand the way EP works and imports data and can’t locate a file once moved. I’ve come to terms with that and liked all the development request posts to add my support for the functionality to be improved.
My question though, I know I’ll lose cue points etc (fine, I’m only 5 days into the new kit) but if I remove the tracks, relocate the files on my external HD, then reload them, will I have to resort the crates? I originally sorted them in EP so I’m guessing it’s bad news.
Super useful forum by the way, there’s so much info here it’s a bit overwhelming but I’ve already learnt so much!
When you say you want to move the files onto an external drive, is that the drive you want to plug into the Prime 4?
If so, you don’t move the files, you copy (export) them - from your laptop to the external drive, using Engine Prime. You can use the Sync Manager to do that.
I guess you could still do it as if you were exporting to a drive for the P4. It would copy the files and create a database on that external drive.
Once you’ve done it, delete the local files and database. Then when you connect the external drive and open EP again, it will show in the Device Panel and you can still access it that way.
Yeah thanks for the tips. The HD I’m using isn’t FAT32 so I’m now going through the laborious task of moving all the family photos onto my laptop, then reformat, then move them all back, before starting on my music file management and import to Engine. 1st World Problems eh?
