Today, we have researched and discovered what Microsoft is doing in Vista. It is truly unbelievable. Read
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163486.aspx
In essence, when your User Access Control (UAC) Bit is ENABLED, Vista never created the file you thought you were importing into. Thus, when you deleted that folder from the Build Songs Database (BSD) list, and looked on the hard drive for it, it was never there in the first place, but we didn't even know that!
Vista TRANSPOSES all files under C:\Program Files\ to be under (see the article above as I haven't memorized the full path) C:\...\VirtualStore\Program Files\Micro Technology Unlimited\Hoster\Songs. This full path does NOT appear in our BSD list, but seemed to.
We have decided the only way to "come clean" with Vista is:
1. PREVENT UPGRADING. You must MANUALLY move all the KMA files out to a new C:\MTU\KMA Files folder, and your Playlists to C:\MTU\Hoster. All Hoster working files will be in this folder (songs.mdb, bucket.mdb, playlist001.hst, log files, etc.). We won't move then for you, and we won't force you to place find files 12-16 folder levels deep.
2. You will NOT disable the UAC bit to use MTU software. Microsoft has now made this so incredibly painful that Hoster 3.321 will conform.
3. You must agree that you have moved all the files you want to keep before you can advance in the Hoster 3.321 installation program. That insures you understand beyond a shadow of a doubt that MTU is not responsible if your files disappear. We now know we aren't, and weren't, but we are being blamed for it.
This ONLY applies to those UPDATING from a prior Hoster install under VISTA. New installs will progress normally with no problems, and nothing to move. Same simplicity with upgrading or new installs under 2000 or XP.
Once installed, 3.321 files and folders are "Vista Honoring".
We hope to get a beta test version out tomorrow so we can release 3.321 this week. It has taken 20-100x longer to discern what to do, than to actually code it. "r