The safest repair session is the one you can undo.
It’s tempting to skip the backup step when you’re keen to just get on with fixing a library, especially if nothing feels obviously broken yet. But a backup takes seconds, and what it buys you is disproportionate: the freedom to make decisions in a repair session without that low hum of worry about whether you’re about to make things worse.
Once you know a clean copy of your VirtualDJ data exists, reviewing a workbook full of AutoFix proposals stops feeling like a one-way door. You can accept, correct, or reject freely, because if anything goes sideways, Restore gets you straight back to where you started.
Make it the first thing you do, every time, not the thing you wish you’d done after an import that didn’t go to plan.