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If I understand you correctly, if I rebuild the database that duplicate songs, if any, will NOT be lost? All I want to do is now put All my kma's on my new laptop so I don't have to.
So... when Hoster builds the new database for the first time on my new laptop, and somehow finds a duplicate ID, will everything still be there?
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Well as I read and understand what you are doing I se 2 possible courses of action (both of which will reset your new song counter):
1st, this is the way I would do it (and have a time or two) but only because I don't like my KMA's spread out in different locations:
Cut and paste all the songs fromthe "new song folders" into the "old songs folder", when windows encounters the edited kma's it will ask you want to replace the file in the folder with the one you are moving, it will tell you the name of the file and the dates they were modified, typicly the ones you are moving will be newer than the ones they will replace. Tell windows to replace the old ones. when that's done open the build database screen, you will see the "old songs" folder listed as well as any and all of the new song folders, you can delete those new song folders from the list (Hoster will automaticaly add them back the next time you use merge). Click the build database button and click OK to the backup message and let it do it's thing.
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This will temporarily fix your problem but it only puts it off to be fixed another day. The one good thing about this method is that since no files are being moved you can copy your songs.mdb to another location and re-use it if you don't like the results.
First, open the build database screen in Hoster, in the list of song folders make sure the main folder or original folder or old song folder (whatever it's called ) is listed last, make sure the new song folders (the ones with your edited kma's) are listed first. Hoster will build the database folder by folder in the order they are listed, until it's done, by putting the edited kma's before the older ones, Hoster will add the new ones and later ignore the duplicates.
To move a folder to the last position you just need to delete it from the list and then re-add it.
Now rebuild the database, the edited kma's will get included and the older duplicates will get logged as duplicates but otherwise ignored.
Hopefully this isn't to confusing, I made several edits because I started confusing myself.LOL
Sam