Hoster can't find KMA Files

[mtchurch]

Hello Everyone,

I have Hoster 2.1 (I beleive, I am away from my home) on a laptop with Windows 2000. It seems that Hoster cannot find the KMA Files.

The last time we used the computer, I back-uped everything to an external Hard Drive. It is my understanding that the external hard drive basically took a "picture" of the original hard drive. After I did this, the laptop sat idle probably for 2-3 months as my wife as been very busy and has not needed it. Yesterday, when I powered up the laptop, the Hoster shortcut icon had been replaced with what looked like a generic icon. When I tried to open the icon, Windows pretty much said that it could not find this file. A this point I reinstalled Hoster. Now Hoster will open but when I do a search on the song by artist, title or book, it comes up with nothing.....almost as if the songs were lost or never imported. At this point, I'm getting nervous as we have imported over 1000 songs in this database. So I decide to reinstall the backup from the external hard drive. Still nothing...same thing.

So I looked into the manual and tried to create a new playlist. Nothing. So I unistalled Hoster and reinstalled it. Nothing.

I looked deeper inside Hoster files and I found all of the KMA files. So the good news is that the KMA files are not lost. So I think it is a problem that Hoster simple cannot find the KMA files to play them.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Mike Church

[Beavis]

all you need to do is rebuild the database.

look in the manual

[mtchurch]

Well......I did look in the manual and I feel pretty sure that I tried that when I tried to rebuild the playlist and so forth.


But nonetheless, I will try again. Thanks for the info.

Mike

[lmcmains]

When you re-build the database make sure to point Hoster to the right place on the hard drive. That is where the files are stored