duplicated songs on backup

[Duners]

I am so sorry but i am not very computer literate. OK i downloaded my 1st download on my show laptop, then after a week i dowloaded my 2nd on to my desktop for backup which worked fine. Since then i have downloaded thousands or more kma's to my show laptop and tried to make my desktop the exact same thing. It did not work not all the songs were in there i was missing 4 or 5 thousand. Well I built the song data base again thinking it would pick up any it missed well all it did was duplicate every thing. And I still did not get the 4-5 thousand songs i was missing. Is there any way to totally clear out my 2nd hoster on my backtop and start over?

Can you please give me the instrutions if I do get to clear everything out how i go about taking my original laptop kma's and making my desktop backup the same. All my kma's are stored on an external harddrive as niether my laptop or desktop have much space?

Please help, i feel like I'm at a deadend and I am making this harder than it really is.

[mindonstrike]

Originally Posted by Duners

I am so sorry but i am not very computer literate. OK i downloaded my 1st download on my show laptop, then after a week i dowloaded my 2nd on to my desktop for backup which worked fine. Since then i have downloaded thousands or more kma's to my show laptop and tried to make my desktop the exact same thing. It did not work not all the songs were in there i was missing 4 or 5 thousand. Well I built the song data base again thinking it would pick up any it missed well all it did was duplicate every thing. And I still did not get the 4-5 thousand songs i was missing. Is there any way to totally clear out my 2nd hoster on my backtop and start over?

Can you please give me the instrutions if I do get to clear everything out how i go about taking my original laptop kma's and making my desktop backup the same. All my kma's are stored on an external harddrive as niether my laptop or desktop have much space?

Please help, i feel like I'm at a deadend and I am making this harder than it really is.

Are all your songs in the same folder on your external? If so there is no reason why some would be missing from the desktop database.

Sam

[Duners]

No i think i have them in 2 different folders, one for english and one for spanish.

If i put everything into 1 folder then can i clear out the doubled up songs and everything on my desktop and start over and redo it?

[Duners]

Originally Posted by Duners

No i think i have them in 2 different folders, one for english and one for spanish.

If i put everything into 1 folder then can i clear out the doubled up songs and everything on my desktop and start over and redo it?

ok now i restored my computer to yesterday and the duplicates are off there, but i made a copy of my original hard drive and backed it up on another hard drive (both external) and tried to load the rest of the songs in my backup from my new harddrive i backed up from original and it won't recoginze it.
It says F:\My book (E) SC8517-4.kma was not found on hard drive????

please help i want to download all my kma files from my show external harddrive to another external harddrive so i have backup and then load my show laptop songs all to my backup desktop. I have done several downloading of new songs that are not on my backup desktop and want it to be the same as my show laptop.

Can anyone help me out and give me advice or give me step by step instructions, it would be greatly appreciated.

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by Duners

ok now i restored my computer to yesterday and the duplicates are off there, but i made a copy of my original hard drive and backed it up on another hard drive (both external) and tried to load the rest of the songs in my backup from my new harddrive i backed up from original and it won't recoginze it.
It says F:\My book (E) SC8517-4.kma was not found on hard drive????

Are you talking about 2 drives or 3? In your statement above it sounds like 3 different drives.

The question is how did you backup the first drive to the second? If you used the Windows XP Backup then what you created is a compressed image copy of the first drive. And Hoster cannot find the files because they don't exist as individual files. As I said in your other post you will need to "Copy" the files from one drive to the other. You can drag and drop the folder(s) from the first to the second drive and this will copy them. When you build your database don't have both drives listed as the source at the same time. I think this is why you got duplicates.

You said previously you have 2 folders for your songs (English and Spanish). Do you use both in the same shows or do you do separate shows in either English or Spanish? If you want all of the songs listed together then when you rebuild the database in Hoster, list both folders in the top block of the rebuild screen and it will catalog all of the files. I do hope you have not used duplicate BookIDs for the two languages! If you have then this will cause a major problem and you will nee

[Duners]

Its actually 2 drives, but when I copied over the E drive to the F drive (just selected everything, cut and paste), it automatically created a "3rd" drive within the 2nd drive. I know that sounds confusing, but thats where the "E" drive within the "F" drive came from.
I am going to work with it today and let you know how it goes.
All the KMA's should be in one file, so I would have the English and Spanish altogether and not in separate files.
No, I did not create separate bookid's for spanish and english.

Thanks for being so patient with me.