Traktor Pro startup speed tip!

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Traktor Pro startup speed tip!

So there we were.

Bento and I once again discussed the marvels of new midimappings, fx sidechaining, smartmixing, and new controllers over MSN while he was doing some awesome tweakage.

After finishing his latest addition, he decided to give Traktor a whirl. CRASH!

Bento had recently been suffering a frequent startup crash, so he decided to go oldschool on Traktor. He searched for the ‘Settings’ and ‘Backups’ folders in his My Documents folder, and moved them to a location elsewhere.

He once again double clicked the Traktor Pro icon on his desktop and zooommmmmmmm, it started up like it was Jim Carrey on speed!

He was amazed and could only utter:“Wow dude! You gotta try this eh?”
He did a short recap and finished up with the magic words:“Dude, trust me. Not only did it fix my problem, it’s like 10x faster starting up!”
Being that I was still at work, only had 5 minutes left to go, I quickly signed off with:“Will be testing this when I get home!”

As I got home, I flicked on my PC and after a quick virus software update that seemed to last ages, damn you Avast! I had to reboot.

After the reboot Bento was already on my case. “Have you tried it already?”
“No man, still trying to get my system up in a decent way.”
So actually he was telling me I was a lazy… :wink:

I first did a regular boot, without the oldschool treatment and clocked it on 45 seconds. Which was actually one of my faster Traktor Pro startups.

Quickly I navigated to my My Documents folder and moved the “backups” and “settings” folders elsewhere.
I double clicked the Traktor Pro icon and was amazed too.

An average of 26 seconds.

So now I am still waiting on Bento to give me a superlative of something that goes really fast, and he is now the lazy one… That’s karma eh mate? :wink:

Okay, all prosa aside.

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If you want Traktor Pro to startup almost a 40% faster, move your “Backups” and “Settings” folders from your “My Documents” folder. (In case of windows user)

Might be interesting if people are willing to try this trick on Mac?

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Yay for killing two birds with one stone !

Id still like to know what was causing it to not start up in the first place, but i guess that will be a mystery unsolved for now.

If it worked on both mine and tekkis system i would say it should be able to help out a number of people.

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Hear hear!

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Opps…! I have my traktor folder setup like that too (on PC), and Traktor boots in 15 - 20 seconds. D:/Music/Traktor 3/… & :/Music/Traktor/

On my macbook, traktor has no hang time when booting up

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I had an original boot up of about 6 seconds, it has not changed. Mind you, im not complaining at 6 seconds (thats from double click on the icon to pressing play on a track).

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Will this work on the original Traktor Scratch?

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Nope

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And what about on OSX? :slight_smile:

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:wink:

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ok ok, ill just try, im gonna re-install everything anyways :smiley:

Edit: Tried that, and now it seems to not start at all haha!

Ok, ok, it took around 3 minutes to start first time around, then I shut it down and restarted, it took around 14 seconds to start up. I will reboot when my disk image is done, then I will let you know if it is “faster” still.

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Cool, thanks bro’!

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Thanks

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humm gonna give her a try

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Oddly, this didn’t make it load faster, just close down faster… odd

hm…

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Well, at least that’s one thing. :smiley:

(Just the thing for you, to not have it help at the startup! :wink: )

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I wonder what causes Traktor PRO to take such time when starting up. Its like it needs to cache something in the background or something. Cause if you open it, close it down again, and then open it up again its up in 2 red ones…

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See, it always takes longer to load up for me. Could it be some setting we have picked? Now it’s closing faster, but this minute and a half load is still weird

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I totally agree, my traktor load time has managed to go back up again - doh.

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yea, I also noticed as soon as I moved the 2 folders and loaded up Traktor…it recreated the folders in the same original location. It does seem like a sort of cache thing since the new folders had only 1 file each in them were as the other folders had about 3 in them (I only recently installed Traktor and used it about 3 or 4 times so that makes sense).

I’ll have to also reinstall at some point since it is trying to check an A: drive and giving an error msg that it is unavailable for some reason…Im able to bypass and eventually load but needless to say that kills startup time.

always a pleasure to bring my offline daw online to activate… :rage:

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Dude, check this topic:

This totally fixes the Traktor need to search for your A: Drive.

After a while the effects of moving the settings folders again seemed to fade, so I gave the A : drive fix a try.
17 seconds average on 10 startups. :smiley: