Hoster 5.05 Won't Open

[FRadspinner]

Instlled Hoster Lite 5.05. Made all the required changes and it was working. Then after installing Microstoft Office, Hoster would not open up anymore. So we uninstalled and reinstalled. The installation went well, no problems, but hoster lite will still not open. We also removed Microsoft Office in case it was interfering but I don't see why it would interfere. However Hoster will still not open. Has anyone had this happen or does anyone know why this is happening? It is a Windows7 version, 64 bit computer. Thanks

[Roy Dennis]

Did your version of office have Access included ?
Did you open your songs.mdb or singers.mdb to examine them using your new office instalation ?

Just wonder of installing Office did anything to your songs.mdb.
Try this open your C:/MTU/Hoster folder, find your songs.mdb and rename it to songs2.mdb (Just as a backup). If your songs are on an external Hard Drive be sure to have it connected before restarting. Hoster should first go through the process of rebuilding the Database before opening the first time. If all goes well you can delete the renamed songs2.mdb.
If it still won't open try the same process again except this time rename your singers.mdb to singers2.mdb but don't delete this if hoster opens as you may need to open it in another program to recover your singers.
If not report back and let us know if it went through the rebuilding process and created a new songs.mdb.

[FRadspinner]

I did have Access included the in the Microsoft Office installation. I went ahead and did what you said. It did rebuild the songs data base. So then I followed the rest of your instructions, but Hoster Lite still did not open when I was finished following the instructions.

[Roy Dennis]

I can't think what has gone wrong here. Can you try using system restore and set it back to the time prior to installing the 5.05 upgrade?

But before doing this, delete the new songs.mdb again, and if you followed the second part of my instruction regarding renaming the singers.mdb, if it rebuilt that as well delete it again, then rename the singers2.mdb back to singers.mbd.

Looking back at previous posts of yours, it appears you had version 4.11 working OK so if you restore back to when you had this version if that opens you should then have to Rebuild it's database after it opens.

If that version doesn't open you may have to re-install it.

If you manage to get that original version working again, then try installing your office program again.
If all goes well after re-installing office, then you can try upgrading to the latest version 5.06 if your license allows this version, or try re-installing 5.05 again but get a fresh download of the file in case something was wrong with your download.

[FRadspinner]

I did go back and restore the computer to my restore point before I installed anything. I also deleted all the hoster files of my C: drive as the MTU folder was still there. Then I reinstalled, made all the required changes, and it worked.

I think that Microsoft Office 2007 just does not work with Windows7? I don't think I am going to try and install office again as I am pretty sure that is what conflicted with Hoster. This was actually my Friend's laptop, so I suggested she either buy Microsoft Office 2010 or ask MTU to sell her the Songbook.

Thanks for all your help. I really appreciate you very much!!

[admin]

When Hoster is installed, we also install the Access "JetEngine" for Access 97, which is what Hoster requires. This is the under-the-hood code that Access uses.

When you installed Office which included Access, it REPLACED our JetEngine with a newer one Hoster won't work with.

I'm surprised that removing Office w/Access didn't allow Hoster to run again after re-installing.

I'll make a note in our Engineering Specs to review if we can add a message when the Access 97 JetEngine is not found. Due to the way Windows works, it may PREVENT installing the 97 JetEngine once a later dated version has been installed.

We can check that, but not immediate. We're way behind on the future of Karaoke as a result of Hoster 5.06.