[Nitecat]

Norm,

Well, I just finished typing a long posting to you on all of this. When I hit send, I discovered my internet connection was gone.....and of course then so was the lengthy posting. So, I'll start again. My luck just has to get better.

Wow, thanks for all of the great information. I had been trying to figure out how to get those file extensions to show and knew there was a way, just hadn't found it yet. Your intructions were great. Anyway, I do have the songs.mdb file, but cannot open it without Access. I'll either take the file to work where I have Access or buy Access for use at home. I'm stuck till I do one of those. I think I understand everything you have said. If I run into trouble, I'll send a PM. Was posting on here so that others might benefit from something we cover.

As for the Alpha Sort, I did understand that you meant for me to put the file in order by Book Id. I was just confused that it was an Alpha sort when it looks like it should be a numeric field. Perhaps it is categorized as an Alpha field even though it contains numbers. I don't know if I'll try the adding zeros thing to the 1-9 and 10-99 listings. You are right, I wish MTU had that already built in. Would be one less thing for me to handle right now.

I'm glad there is a way for me to be sure I have the song title and artist listed the same as before on the songs I reload. Whew! This will be quite a process. I do have one more question at this point:

Q1. I understand that MTU changed some of the disc names in Hoster 3.0. I read a post someplace about that, but didn't look into it much, since I had just printed my books with the old names. How do you think that will affect what I am doing now? How have you handled that with your database and songbooks? I'd prefer that my songbooks match the disc names in my database, but maybe that is not possible now with Hoster renaming discs and my having to reload some. I suppose if I have to reload a disc that was renamed by MTU, it will have to have the new name? If so, then it won't match the songbooks that I just printed.

Guess that's about it for now. Thanks again for all your help. You'll probably hear from me again. Oh, by the way.......I'm a chick!! I thought your assumption that I was a guy was kind of cute though. You've been great and very clear in your instructions. Thank goodness for the boards here. Would you believe this hard drive problem happened at my FIRST Hoster show? I had hoped for a glorious night like other Hoster users, since I had been working on getting ready for this since August 1. I had had no problems with anything until my external drive went bad. That is of course the worst thing I could imagine happening. I will certainly understand better how it all works and will get through this problem, if it kills me. Until I can run Hoster, I'll be looking up each song manually (my books now show Book ID for Hoster use) and flipping discs. I want to resolve the reloading issue soon!!

The not techy enough Chick.......Ruth (Nitecat)