Duplicate Book ID's

[Mad Mike]

I am running hoster 4.00 on 2 computers (one for show use..and one for backup). I have been using both comps. to laod my cdg's to save time. Now that I have murged the two databases on one machine for show use I am getting some duplicate book ID numbers. Please tell me there is an easy fix (even though I think I have tried everthing...database "add", and "rebuild" tools and no change). In trying to save time have I just created a mess!

Any help will be appreciated

Thanks,
MadMike

[ddouglass]

The "Add" should have given new bookids to the duplicates. When the rebuild and Add run do you get any error messages?
In the future if you are going to do this then I suggest you make sure you don't duplicate any BookIDs. The way we have done it is to predetermine and mark our CDs with the number we want for each.

[Mad Mike]

Thanks for reply!

When I merged the two files I just did the drag and drop with windows (probably should have used hoster) boy that ol' hind sight is 20-20!!

Now that they are in the same file when hoster builds the song database with either add or rebuild is used it says I have 1,486 Duplicate book ID's.

When I let it murge them anyway the search song utility produces songs that are not what the search says they are.

Thanks,
MadMike

[ddouglass]

Delete your Songs.mdb and Songs_backup.mdb files in C:\MTU\Hoster.
Then rebuild. That should clear it up.

[Mad Mike]

Thanks,

I tried that before and again just now with no luck... still the same. I guess I will just have to re-load all those discs if I can figure out what got filtered out.

MadMike

[ddouglass]

In C:\MTU\Hoster you will find a duplicate IDs log file. That will show you what are the duplicates.