Bloated djay Media Library size

Thanks @Temitope_Oyebode, I’ve passed this onto engineering for review.

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Is there any update on this bloated library issue please this is really affecting my set @Slak_Jaw

Hi @Temitope_Oyebode, we don’t have any updates on this yet. The dev team is still working on it.

Ok we will be looking forward for permanent fix

Do you have any suggested workarounds in the meantime? I am worried that the software will become unusable in a few days, as I have been working on the playlists a lot and have an important gig in a couple of weeks. It grew another 200MB in the past 2 days.

Hi @ChesterLP, yes, a workaround/solution was proposed above

Thank you.
As far as I can tell by the command prompt, that solves the issue one user had when syncing with iCloud, which is not my problem. Mine is like the OP one, where Djay Pro takes a long time to load and becomes unresponsive.

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My apologies, but you were right. I disregarded this workaround because it mentioned iCloud and I had no issues with it.
After some digging out of dispair (I’m an IT Engineer), I found that it was in fact the table that holds the sync information that was to blame - cloudKit_queue_cloudKit - that had, in my case, almost 500K records. It went from a 2.2GB db to a 40MB one after executing the suggested terminal prompt.
Djay Pro is much snappier now.

Looking forward to the release of the proper software fix.

You’re welcome @ChesterLP. We don’t currently have any other workarounds to offer. Our engineering team is still working on addressing this. I believe your only other option right now is to backup your existing djay Media Library database by copying it to another location or external drive. After doing this, and with djay closed, you could delete your djay Media Library file. This will create a fresh database file when you reopen djay. Please note, however, that this will delete your My Collection playlists, Hot Cues and Saved Loops as well so this probably wont be an ideal option for you.