That's how it works already, just make your crates and put the songs from the external drive in them, and the crates get saved to the external drive (in the _Serato_ folder on the root level of the external drive). Now you can plug the external drive into any computer (not just yours) and your crates will show.

ok im still a little confused, i apologize. But I don't have any serato files saved on my external at all. SSL is saved to my mac obviously. How would i go about creating a serato file on my external hard drive in order to save the crates in their and have them open up in SSL when my external is plugged in?

Again, that's how it already works by design. The Scratch Live program/app itself has to stay on your internal drive obviously, but just make your crates like normal, put your songs from the external drive into the crates, and the crates get saved automatically to the external drive when you exit the program. Where the actual song files come from determines where the crate files get saved to. So if the songs come from an external drive, then the crates get saved to the external drive (and likewise for songs on the internal drive).

Also it's important to note, and maybe where you're confused, is that you will also have a _Serato_ folder in your Music folder on the internal drive. That folder is also needed as it stores things like effects, recordings, MIDI settings, etc. for the main program, in addition to crates for songs on the internal drive. The external drive's _Serato_ folder only stores crates.

AWESOME! thanks konix I appreciate the help!

soo i did everything Konix said and still nothing. I created my crates and they didnt save. nor is there any file on my external drive labeled _serato_ . maybe i need a better explanation. so in short, i made the crates with my external plugged in, everything was good. i exited SSL and backed up library. opened SSL again and nothing saved. its like i was never in it

could it be because my external drive is formatted as Windows NT File System (NTFS)? it still reads all the files fine and work properly

Yep, that's the problem. Macs cannot write to Windows NTFS drives, they're read only.

You'll need to reformat the drive to either FAT32/exFAT or Mac HFS+.

See this video... Watchwww.youtube.com

which is a better format to use? i know fat32 is compatible with both pc and mac but ive read it has performance issues....any insight on this?

Use exFAT if you have to use the drive on both Macs and PCs. exFAT doesn't have all the limitation of the old FAT32 format.

If you're just going to use the external drive on the Mac only, then format it Mac HFS+.

great thanks. I'll let you know how it works!

Hello, I am using the latest serato and yosemite on a mac book. All of my tracks are in my external hard drive WD 2TB and i dont keep any tracks in my computer. The problem is i create crates and get all my tracks analysed but when i close serato all tha crates dissappear but the tracks stay analysed. And also another problem is the length of the tracks are not showing on serato either. So when i close serato, not only the crates disappear but also the length of the tracks are not showing either. I did read the previous comments and i checked if my external hard drive is formatted to windows but no it is formatted to mac os extended journaled. Please help me with this. Thanks

Ps: And i also noticed that serato is not creating a serato folder in my external hard drive either. So theres not serato folder in my external hard drive where i can back up my crates from.

I am not the Greatest in PC tech stuff but I do wonder if you go to your settings are you checked or unchecked on reading from Itunes--but unclicking will help serato recognize that you are using external???

I think this is probably right because I do have the same problem like all my crates disappears when I exit SSL and when I open it back nothing is there , like a ghost walk on the rock.

Sorry about my first post . I meant this one

copy the _serato_ folder from your mac drive and paste it to your external drive