Corrupted external drive.

[Deedler]

I downloaded over 20,000 songs from and external hard drive. That drive crapped out so now i have all those songs that cannot find this drive. How can I delete them all at once. e,g. can I set " delete all songs imported from whatever date etc:

[Roy Dennis]

It depends which version of Hoster as to the best way.
The later edit versions have a date option upto the last 90 days which you can filter on easy to delete multiples.

Are you saying you used to play from the external drive and now all the same songs are on your internal C\Drive ?

Or have you just loaded them onto another external drive ?


If you just loaded them onto another external drive you can make that drive letter match the old one.

If they are now all on your internal C:\Drive it might be best to rebuild the database.

If you need to go down this route let us know and I'll try to guide you through the process.

There is a new feature in the later Hoster versions from the edit dialog "My drive letter has changed" which I know works when changing from one external to another but have not tried changing it to the internal but might be worth a try.

[Deedler]

Hi Roy, I am filtering all the dates I downloaded from the bad external as you suggested.
I had them all downloaded and was editing them when the drive crapped out. I ( or anyone else) cannot now find the drive e.g. it is no good for anything.
As I say, the external "died" but all the songs I had downloaded from it appears in my data base, but the files obviously cannot be found because they cannot "find" the corrupt external. That basically is the story!!! I have the latest Hoster version BTW.

[WaltR]

Originally Posted by Deedler

I downloaded over 20,000 songs from and external hard drive. That drive crapped out so now i have all those songs that cannot find this drive. How can I delete them all at once. e,g. can I set " delete all songs imported from whatever date etc:

When you use the term "Downloaded" do mean to say you indexed them into Hoster but left them on the drive that failed? If that is the case and you have no back up of the songs, i.e. on another drive, you are in trouble. If the drive is dead and no backup of the songs exist you can't recover them. The delete procedure is as Roy explained. I hope I misunderstood your post and you have another drive with your songs!

[Roy Dennis]

I don't know if you ever used Hosters backup feature. That would restore your Hoster to how it was when you created the backup.
Cause it won't recover song files on a crashed drive but it would restore your database to how it was before the drive crapped out.
The feature is found from the Menu/Help/Backup Restore.
I back mine up about once a month.

Not much good to you unless you did create a backup, lesson learned

[Deedler]

Thanks for the concern folks. I have backed up the downloaded songs on to another drive. Just have a useless external and a lot of songs to delete. Also, a warning to others!!!

[WaltR]

Originally Posted by Deedler

Thanks for the concern folks. I have backed up the downloaded songs on to another drive. Just have a useless external and a lot of songs to delete. Also, a warning to others!!!

I don't know why you want to do the deletions. Since you have a backup drive just assign that to the same drive letter you had for the bad drive. Hoster will then recognize that drive with your song files. You may have to do a rebuild unless your backup drive was copied after you had indexed your songs on the old drive.