Recovering from SSD failure on Mac Mini – no Roon backup but complete user folder backup – is there any way back?

[malcolm_manning]

Roon Server Machine

macos 10.15.7
Mac mini (Late 2012)
2,5 GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i5
16 GB 1333 MHz DDR3

the SSD died on my Mac Mini – it’s back up and running from an external SSD connected by USB 3.1 since it’s not really cost effective to replace the internal SSD

when installing macOS I used the same user name and same SSD name

I have a complete backup of the user folder, including Roon folder and but no Roon backup since I was having problems creating a backup in common with others I read here – it sounded like I have somewhere a corrupted album image but had no time to check through my library – young family!!!

my music library consists of around 21,000 tracks – I’ve been using Roon for over three years linked to a Qobuz account from which I had saved a lot of albums into my Roon library

when I restarted then Roon asked me to sign in again – deauthorise the old server account and reauthorise – I ended up going around in circles several times but Roon just hung on loading

is there any way back to get my Roon server back to the same state as before given that I have copies of the original Roon folder and the saved state macOS library file – is there some invisible file I’m missing?

I checked in this forum and figured the answer is probably not but I wanted to check before starting over again

I would love to get back to the library streaming albums that I carefully curated over these years

thanks for your advice

malcolm

[noris]

Hi @malcolm_manning ,

I’ve moved this to tinkering since this isn’t a proper backup and you may run into issues doing it this way, but yes, if you have a copy of the user folder then there is a chance that you can get Roon working again.

I would install Roon on the Mac again from our downloads page (Roon - Downloads) and then you can copy the ~Library/RoonServer & ~Library/Roon folders to the newly installed Roon location and overwrite the blank ones.

More information on Database Location can be found here:

Database Location

I highly suggest performing a proper backup from within Roon once you sort the issue out.