No more room on laptop

[Groove]

Hi Could anyone help me with this prob??
only got a few more gigabyte left on laptop where i got hoster and all songs currently stored
i allso have a external hard drive where i'd like to keep my songs [kma's]
but keep hoster on the laptop .

can this be done??
hoster on c drive
and songs on e drive

any suggestions

[danny_g]

Originally Posted by Groove

Hi Could anyone help me with this prob??
only got a few more gigabyte left on laptop where i got hoster and all songs currently stored
i allso have a external hard drive where i'd like to keep my songs [kma's]
but keep hoster on the laptop .

can this be done??
hoster on c drive
and songs on e drive

any suggestions

I believe you could move the song folder to the external drive and do a rebuild database and that would do the trick. Please Doug correct me if I got that wrong.

[admin]

danny_g is correct. You can even have MULTIPLE drives, each with songs in multiple directories on them if you want.

The Tools menu, Build Songs Database command allows you to select which drives/folders to include in your Songs Database. Just add them into the list window and they will be included.

I suggest you read the Manual on Build Songs Database for a greater understanding. If it's not clear, post back here and we'll get you a better answer... and add to the manual.

[Groove]

slowly getting a grasp of what i need to do

ok my songs on cdrive can be moved to external h/drive
but when i build the new songs database will the songs not get moved back to the c drive folder with hoster since the destination folder under build songs database is always gonna be c drive

any help much appreciated

[admin]

Originally Posted by Groove

slowly getting a grasp of what i need to do

ok my songs on cdrive can be moved to external h/drive
but when i build the new songs database will the songs not get moved back to the c drive folder with hoster since the destination folder under build songs database is always gonna be c drive

any help much appreciated

I moved this to the Hoster Help forum where it belongs.

The Songs Database is like an "index"... it doesn't store the actual KMA files, only pointers to them.

Thus, when you build your songs database, the files can be on external drives, even mulitiple drives. No files will be moved to C drive.

[George]

Originally Posted by Groove

slowly getting a grasp of what i need to do

ok my songs on cdrive can be moved to external h/drive
but when i build the new songs database will the songs not get moved back to the c drive folder with hoster since the destination folder under build songs database is always gonna be c drive

any help much appreciated

When you change the drive where the songs are located, you also change the destination folder to the new location when you rebuild the database.

George

[Beavis]

make sure the drive letter on the external hard drive (where you store your kma's on) does not change each time you start the computer up.

if it does you will have to rebuild the database again.

[Groove]

thanx for all help got it 100% sussed out and are operating out of external h/d
brill