Having to do a full sync everytime taking ages

Engine DJ Software Engine DJ (Mac & PC)
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This has probably been answered before but everytime I add new files to engine dj on my MacBook and want to sync to my external harddrive I have to do a full sync taking ages however if I just select what I want to sync it removes all the files on hard drive and I have to start from scratch again for the life of me I cannot figure this out any advice would be appreciated

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Hi, what speed is your external hard drive?

I say this because the difference between a USB 2.0 and USB 3.2 is huge. USB 2.0 used to take hours to add even 100 new tracks, whereas 3.2 is minutes. Write speed of the drive is massively important, as is the speed of your connection between them.

Engine shouldnā€™t be doing a ā€˜fullā€™ sync each time, it should only be adding new tracks.

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Same here, I use SD cards on my mixstream pro go & when I add new tunes it takes seconds to sync back over (windows 11). From my end all itā€™s doing is adding the new analysed tunes in a new order if Iā€™m adding to an existing playlist but yeah itā€™s pretty quick for me to.

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Itā€™s a crucial x9 SSD usb c 3 rapid but I do have about 900 gig of files on it now, so if I just add files to folders on Mac and sync it should just do new ones?

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My workflow is buy music, rename it, sort into relevant folders in my music master folder. Then open engine, drag and drop each folder into its related playlist to add new music, then use sync manager (ensuring all playlists are ticked) to sync the new music to the drive.

Just shy of 130gb of music on my drive, so canā€™t comment on whether a much larger library will impact the performance.

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If noticed 2 ways to speed up the sync procedure:

1- use the ā€œrun cleanupā€ often! 2-It seems like itā€™s about the amount of files or tracksā€¦ its the amount of playlists.

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Would track/album art cause delays? I mean if you got a lot of tunes. All my tracks are vinyl recordings so I had to enter my own data after recording, hence no artwork to deal with.

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Thanks guys I got it working now I used the clean option it helped and just clicked sync on new files I am trimming down my collection but I have a lot of flac files now much larger, only a second or two delay loading onto prime go

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I experienced the same thing, but on a smaller scale. I wanted to sync only the playlists I had made changes to from the stick. Unfortunately, the ones that were okā€¦ ā€œevaporatedā€ and I had to start over.