Hi All,

Just some advanced technical information for anyone else who has or has not thought of utilizing symbolic links with Serato DJ

This is for the advanced user group, so I don't recommend this for anyone who is not familiar with terminal, sudo, symbolic links, root access, internal or external hard drive testing, disk utility, and operating system modifications.

In other words, you will break serato dj if you dont know what you are doing and I wont be responsible, serato is not responsible, and other forum members who you ask for help will also not be responsible

I have two hard drives in my macbook pro 2012, 9,1 and 9,2. I offloaded all my music to my secondary hard drive and now I also run two operating systems on my main laptop.

I run OSX Yosemite and MacOS Mojave. Yosemite is not supported on the latest Serato DJ, but its a solid operating system. Mojave at the time of this post is supported by Serato DJ and most drivers install on it which is a big deal in 2021 and the ever changing and evolving landscape of djing

Having two music folders to keep sync is not possible, so symbolic links are needed. I offloaded my ~/music folder, the music folder in my user home folder, to my external drive.

Word of caution, yes I already know I can move my home folder to my external drive, but if you try to install drivers and reboot your computer, theres a 25% chance your computer will not boot and you will have to restore from a time machine. This has been my experience so I decided that was not the route to go

I renamed my home music directory to "music_temp"
I copied my music folder to my secondary hard drive "/Volumes/Current/Music/"
I restarted my computer
Open Serato and check your history tab to see if your sets are there.

open terminal
sudo -s
mv music music_temp
ln -s /Volumes/Current/Music ~/

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