Deleting songs from the data base
 

Hello
just trying to delete 4 songs. I can manualy remove the songs from the folder but if I do they still appere on the playlist.......

I went to the hoster help page and it said to enter the edit song section. I searched for the 4 songs I want to delete and hit delete but there was an error. These four songs were to test my new software, they were saved to my laptops hard drive. I hooked up my 400 gig external and now I want to save all my songs the it, however i cant delete the 4 songs from the comp hard drive. I want to reinstall but I think I can only use the registration number twice and I want to save the second one for my back up.


thank you in advance for your help


patrick in Sacramento

Don't re-install. Instead rebuild the database under tools. That will remove the songs.

Just remember these problems in the future, and use the Edit Songs dialog to delete master .KMA files. This automatically removes them from the Songs Database for you. :w

If you have already deleted the KMA's from their folder then yes you will get an error when you try to access those songs from Hoster, Hoster can't work with something that is no longer there.

If I am reading this correctly I see two choices.
1) You can go to the recycle bin, restore those files, and then use the "Edit Songs" function to delete them.
OR
2) You can do as Dale advised and use the "Build Database" funtion to re-read your KMA's and rebuild the database (takes about 1 min per 1000 songs).

Referencing #2: I have not checked this in a long long time so I'm not sure if it's still true but once-upon-a-time, it was necesary to delete the .mdb file "songs" from the database folder ("songs" file NOT "Songs" folder), because "Build Database" would recognize new KMA's but not missing KMA's.
So if after the rebuild those songs are still present in the database, that's what you'll have to do.

There was a bug that was not auto-deleting the existing songs.mdb file. That should have been fixed a long time ago.

Go to the Tools menu, Build Songs Datbase command and run it. Follow the directions. YOU CANNOT DO DAMAGE WITH THIS COMMAND. It does NOT delete KMA Files; only the Songs Database and automatically rebuilds it. Read the manual on this command. :w