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Old February 7th, 2008, 10:12 AM
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How to Move KMA Files to Another (External?) Drive

Follow these steps to MOVE KMA files from drive to another. Once they are duplicated, then delete them from the original location. If you are moving files to the same hard drive, you will have to move some at a time as KMA files are about 3MB-6MB in size and will use up your hard drive space very quickly with duplicate copies.

1. Click "My Computer" on your Windows Desktop and click the "Folders" button at the top near center.

2;. Find the KMA files wherever they are on your computer. The MTU default location is: C:/Program Files/Micro Technology Unlimited/Hoster/Songs

3. MOVE your KMA files to your external drive. To do this, click each file in the source folder, or click the first with the SHIFT key pressed and HELD DOWN, then click the last one in that folder and all files between these two will be selected. Then click (do NOT release the mouse button) within the group of selected files and drag (move the mouse with the button HELD DOWN) them to the external drive letter (E:\ or :F\ or whatever it is). When you are see the external drive letter highlight, press the SHIFT key to see the "+" disappear, then RELEASE the mouse button. The files will start moving from the source to the external drive.

4. Locate the external drive and view it to see the KMA files are on that drive. If not. You copied them somewhere else. Find them by clicking in the folders on the left side and viewing the file contents on the right side. If you messed up doing this, please find someone who knows basic Windows operations to help you.

5. Run Hoster, and click the Tools menu "Build Songs Database" command.

6. In the dialog that appears, in the list window (large white background in the middle of the dialog), click the C drive folder where they used to be and click the "Delete Folder" button.

7. Click the "Select Folder" button to see the "Choose Folder" dialog. Locate the external drive and folder you copied your KMA files to, and click the "Select" button.

8. The external drive folder should now appear in the list box.

9. Click the "Build Songs Database" button at the bottom. You will see a message box showing how many songs it has indexed, until all are done.

You are finished.
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