Traktor root folder issue

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Traktor root folder issue

Oi folks,

I got this nasty little problem that I can’t get rid off. Just switched to a new laptop (Windows), and I kinda messed up with importing my old Traktor library. I just backed up all my old files and completely imported the traktor settings.ini file, but I forgot that I didn’t partition my hard drive like on my old computer: now Traktor doesn’t boot with the following message:

"Could not initialize Traktor with root directory set to …‘’

Problem is, after reinstalling a couple of times, having cleaned my registry and searched for all possible traktor settings.ini files (I did mess around a little while trying to fix it) and deleting them, the damn problem just won’t go away. Anyone got a clue on how to fix this?
I’m about to do a clean install just to get rid of it all but I rather fix it in a less drastic way.

Thanks for all your help,
Stéphan

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Did you assing the new location in Traktor’s preferences? Unless you change that it will keep looking in the old spot.

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Problem is, I can’t run Traktor no more, it just won’t open.

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change the drive letter in disk management to same as traktor used to be in…

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I’m not even sure if it’s possible, but changing the drive letter of the partition where my OS is installed doesn’t sound like a smart move to me. I could create an extra partition indeed, but my HDD is a bit small so I rather keep it in 1 partition.

I’m just puzzled where Traktor keeps on finding that wrong root folder, I literally deleted everything I could find…

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isn’t the letter listed in the .ini file? change it there.

also did you change os?

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There’s no .ini file anymore - or at least I (and Windows) can’t find any. Some googling told me to delete it so Traktor would automatically create a new one.

I didn’t change OS, from Win7 to Win7.

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looks like you’ll need a clean install… did you back up collection.nml files?

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[im no PC guy so take this as an educated guess from a Mac guy]

In the registry go to:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Native Instruments\TRAKTOR PRO

Right click the entry “TRAKTOR PRO” in the list and delete it.

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You sir, are my hero. All good now, thanks a lot.

Weird this hadn’t been fixed already though, I had already ran a regcleaner and done a couple of manual searches in it too, but hey, all good now.

Thanks again!

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Excellent… glad to help mate.

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Hello Karlos

Can you help me?
Where do i find “registry”
I have the same problem, when i start trakor : message"…could not initialize traktor with root directory…"

Thank you for the help