Unable to delete a CDG??

[Ramblin]

I am trying to delete a song out of Hoster (located in my external hard drive H: so I can change the book numbers. It tells me it can't delete it. The message says:
Unable to delete H:\Karaoke Songs\SC8443-11.kma status=3
I have tried closing Hoster and reopening it. Can anyone tell me why I can't delete it? It happens even when I try to delete the whole disc of songs.

[ddouglass]

I assume you are trying to delete from the edit screen.

Are you running XP or Vista?
Is the song in the playlist? If so then delete it from the playlist, close and reopen Hoster and then delete it.

[Ramblin]

Yes, I am trying to delete the songs from the edit screen. I have made sure that the song / songs are not in the playlist. I made sure the playlist was empty and then rebooted my computer. I reopened Hoster and tried again, but it still refuses to delete it. I am using Windows XP and I have deleted songs before with no problems.

[Ramblin]

I just tried to delete another set of files, but it didn't work either.

[mindonstrike]

I think it's trying to tell you that it can't delete because it can't find the drive or the drive isn't connected.

Sam

[Ramblin]

Well, I am impressed. As soon as I read Sam's reply, I realized the problem. I have two hard drives. One on my desk top as a backup and one that I use for my shows. Sure enough, I didn't have the one I use for my shows hooked up and it was the only one with those songs on it. That does bring me to another question though. I use windows to transfer my files. I want to move the files that aren't in the backup drive into it. I have over 14,000 songs on the hard drive and I want to make sure that both hard drives have the same songs. When I go to transfer them it tells me that the other hard drive has each song. There are only a few that won't be on it. Is there a way that I can tell Windows that I want to only transfer the files that are not there? This would keep me from either overwriting all the songs or I can sit there and press "no" a few thousand times. Any ideas?

[ddouglass]

I wish that Windows Explorer had that capability!! It would make things easier for a lot of files transfers and backups, but it doesn't so....
The best way I have found if you are adding new imports is to sort by modified date and copy only those that fall within the dates you want. That can shorten your list.