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Originally Posted by Bi-Polar Bear
If I can only reference a connected drive, and if it takes an hour to build the database, then what's the use of having a spare drive? If one drive craps out for any reason in the middle of a show and I then have to connect the spare and go through the process of waiting an hour for the database to rebuild, I've lost the show. (and the money which, like all of us, is the main reason I do this)
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As Sam said all you have to do is remove the bad drive, plug in the spare making sure it becomes F: and you are back in business with no rebuild. If the drive letter isn't F: then you can change it using Beavis's procedure he listed to manage the drive. much shorter than rebuilding.
The use of a spare is so you can recover from a crash without having to re-import. It isn't an instant recovery. If you want that you would have to have both drives available, identical and in a mirror RAID set up so if one died the other takes over. Hoster does not build duplicate database files.
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Originally Posted by Bi-Polar Bear
Here's a new problem that just arose. Before going to my show last night, I rebuilt the database. Now it's reading the F drive perfectly. I then open my dj software and have it read in my regular songs,that are also on the F drive. After doing that, Hoster then stops reading the F drive and attempts to default to the g drive, which is not connected. Now I have to disconnect everything, turn off and restart the computer, and then rebuild the Hoster songs database yet again, and not dare to try and read in my regular songs to my dj software. What could that be? Will I have to run two separate external hard drives all the time? I wouldn't think that would be necessary but is it?
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Are all of your song files in the same folder? The DJ program may be locking that folder for exclusive use. If so then you may need to seperate them into two different folders.
Are you still setting the rebuild folder to both drives? Hoster should not even know a G: drive exists unless this is still in the rebuild list.