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Old March 21st, 2018, 01:40 PM
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Re: Database

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Originally Posted by BANDL View Post
I just copied all my songs from an external HD(F:drive) to the C:drive. If I start Hoster (5.41) it still looks at the F: drive. How can I make the software look at the new place for the songs (C: drive)?
You can try this first:
Tools Menu/Edit Songs Top of that dialog is a big blue button “My Drive Letter has changed”
It may not work if the rest of the file path is wrong.

Failing that you will have to rebuild the database but don’t just press the rebuild database button as you could end up with a lot of duplicated Disk ids.
This is how i would do it:
Tools menu/Build Database in the dialog bottom left panel is a list of all the file paths, Select all those files using the shift+left click then choose “Remove Folder”
This will remove all those file paths from your database.
When completed just to be sure click “Rebuild Database”
You should then see a dialog telling you No Songs in Database.
Now use the “Add folders/Subfolders” button and point it to the Top of your C/songs folders tree and it will start building a new database.

Regards the random Songs button this only appears if you have BookIds button selected not with Brand selected.
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