It is a VERY GOOD IDEA to backup your work, with Hoster or any computer program.
Read in the Hoster manual about the
Rebuild Songs Database command. This allows you to create a new Songs Database, with some controls you may not be aware of if you don't read the manual.
You don't need to copy your songs from your external hard drive, unless this is your means of backing up your imported KMA files. When you rebuild the Songs Database, all the information is retrived from the header in each KMA file. However, you can limit or expand which hard drives and/or folders the command searches for KMA files. It only searches the drives and folders you enter.
If you want to organize your KMA files by some "genre", you can use Windows Explorer to move KMA files to different sub-directories titled that Genre (for example). Then, you can create different Songs.mdb databases as indicated below.
It also allows specifying where you want it to save and look for the new Songs.mdb database. This allows you to create multiple Songs.mdb databases, for example, for different shows for different nights (country, pop, gospel, all songs you have, etc.). The current Songs Database DESTINATION setting in the Rebuild Songs Database command tells Hoster where to find the "active" Songs.mdb database to use. Thus, the last one created is the one that will appear when you run Hoster, including immediately after changing this setting.
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Originally posted by dlessnau
THANK YOU...
I am now at 632 imported. About 50 to go. If I ever lost my data, I would blow my brains out. I have a exteranal harddrive and I back up each 10 hour days work, so I feel pretty safe.
If I would have a crash of Holster and then reinstall it, will I just have to transfer the song files to the Holster Song folder? How about the database? I am not backing that up anyplace.
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