Ok, here's what happened and maybe this will help someone else.
A couple of days ago I had Hoster print out a song book. I noticed that it duplicated several of the artists rather than keeping them as individual. (Didn't know that you had to delete your artist and title files before you do this) So I thought maybe I needed to rebuild the data base. While in the middle of the data base rebuild, we had an electrical storm and power went of just briefly,..but long enough that the computer shut down and it had to reboot. Well when it came up I had it rebuild again. Then I told Hoster to print books. When I looked at the books 75% of the Artists were gone and in its place were 2 names of a group I didn't even have! I copied my song data base over to my other computer and opened it up. Sure enough the artists were gone. Book ID (Song ID to me) was ok, Titles were ok, but wrong artist.)
I then copied and pasted from my Excell file into the data base file. Hosters uses Access 97, so I first had to change it to 2000 to do these changes then change back to 97. I put the db back in Hoster, told it to rebuild db and no such luck. The db changed back to the corrupted file. Thank goodnees for MTU. Brian got me back on track. Apparently what happend is the damaged was to the header file in the kma's. So,...I did it all over and this time told hoster to rebuild kma's. Perfect! Worked like a charm. But, I then discovered that some songs weren't matching up with the correct artist. Went through and found where I didn't exactly get everything in its place. Took a long time but finally got all my i's dotted and t's crossed. If you have to doing anything to your db file, please go slow and make sure everything is like it's supposed to be. I found half a dozen errors that I didn't realize I had. I know this was long but wanted to share it. Thank goodness other people have shared theirs.
Thanks, MTU, Thanks, Brian.
Kelly
