Does things differently??

[stublack]

I have always loaded all my songs on a home work computer. Divided all the music on separate folders for each system. Then I would move the kma records from that folder to a folder on each work computer system and run a build database and it would work fine. I have spent the last six months dividing up music again because I have added a new computer system to do shows on.
I just tried to add all the kma files that I put into my #1 work system folder. When I bring a song on the search it tells me I have to have the original folder from the original hard that it was set up in. Please don't tell me that six months of work is all gone down the drain. Is it possible that I can get back to an older version of hoster on all my computers to resolve this problem

[Roy Dennis]

I'm finding it hard to follow what you say you do.

You should be able to copy a kma folder from one computer to the other.
I have never seen the message you say your getting.

As to whether you can go back to an earlier version, which version are you trying to go back to ?

You are not confusing KMA with KMH are you ? Only kmh files have to be in the same folder as the original file, ie mp3+g, zip or whatever type you imported.

[stublack]

Hi Roy thanks for the quick response.

I will give you an example I'm looking at right now.
Uptown Funk SF347 was created on my work home computer. (E- drive)
Moved to this work computer (Z-drive) everything else is the same Book-Id, Disk ID etc.
I'm in the search. I'm in the edit trying to play the song.
I get an error E:\KMA\SF347-1 track file is missing
The file may be renamed or on a USB- Hard Drive that is not plugged in.

I understand what this means. Even though I loaded these KMA files from E: on one hard drive to Z: on another hard drive. When I ran Build song database from Z: I think there is something in that KMA file that points to the original E: file. This has never done this before, but I have dozens of other examples on different computer including the work computer

[stublack]

I also wanted to add that the original hard drive (E was never plugged into this computer.

[Roy Dennis]

Go to Tools/Songs Database/Build Database dialog.

In the list of folders is the file path showing as Z:/xxxxx there.

Or can you attach a screen shot of that dialog.


Also when open Computer or my computer does it show drives E & Z ?

One more thing why have you chose Z as a drive letter only that is often chosen for networked drives. Just wonder if that could be a reason.

[stublack]

Hi Roy
This problem is getting more and more complicated. First of all there has never been an E: drive on this computer.
the Hoster on this computer is 5.08
I just ran update songs database. I cleared out all the files that was in there and added back one folder D: MH-04 (I changed the hard drive from Z to D)which are Monster Hit Songs that are eventually going to be on the 4th show system.
There were 291 files in this folder and went through the motions of adding all 291 but when it was complete it said 0 files added.

The songs from the last add from Z; Kma are still in there even though Z KMA is not in the list of folders (I excluded it). And these songs still point to E: KMa.

It might sound like I making this stuff up cause it's so ridiculous, but I cannot proceed with anything until the problem is resolved. Thanks, Stu