[swany]

BiPolar, I had a few issues with having 14,000 plus songs and have culled that to under 8,000. Changed my books to reflect less than 4,000 I'm finding my gigs are having a lot more singing and a lot less paging through the books. It took me several days with my rig set up in the garage to cull a pile of dupes and get rid of the songs no one ever sings. I checked for just one Bing Crosby - White Christmas and had 9 dupes!!!!!!!!!!! Point I'm trying to make is make up a hoster lite file out of your kma files and if this ever happens again rebuild from there. If you keep track of what your singers are singing it makes it easier, to do the culling.

On the plus side my books are a lot easier to read larger font, less pages and one inch binders.

Big plus when we had the Vista 3.318-9 fiasco, I got hit with that lucky I was carrying my extra laptop. Next day reloaded songs and rebuilt database in less than a half hour. If I had my USB hard drive with me it would have taken less than 10 minutes. Sometimes less is more, in most of our cases we have never had a gig that need 200 different songs in a night average. I move them pretty fast at one of mine and can't touch that figure. PCs have glitches

MTU prgs are built better than the operating systems we put them in, sad but true.