lost all 65000 song on external hd

[pselph2528]

Help, I have used hoster for over 2 yrs andnever had any problems untill up grading to 3318 and then 3319. Today i turned my computor on and all 65,000 + songs were gone from my external hard drive-- it worked fine last night. Can someone give me an idea of what happened and how to fix it?
Paul

[billyo]

Originally Posted by pselph2528

Help, I have used hoster for over 2 yrs andnever had any problems untill up grading to 3318 and then 3319. Today i turned my computor on and all 65,000 + songs were gone from my external hard drive-- it worked fine last night. Can someone give me an idea of what happened and how to fix it?
Paul

try rebuilding your song database..that might work..i kinda noticed that everyone that did an upgrade the kma files are being moved ,if rebuilding doesn't work, you might wanna think about going back to the older version 3.317

[ddouglass]

Paul, make sure your external's drive letter didn't change. If that happened then you can reset the drive letter to what it was or rebuild the database.
Billyo, not everyone has had this happen. The reason it looks bad is because those who successfully upgrade don't report it here. This one I suspect does not have anything to do with the upgrade.

[billyo]

Originally Posted by ddouglass

Paul, make sure your external's drive letter didn't change. If that happened then you can reset the drive letter to what it was or rebuild the database.
Billyo, not everyone has had this happen. The reason it looks bad is because those who successfully upgrade don't report it here. This one I suspect does not have anything to do with the upgrade.

thats true...but why is this happening..and btw this might be in the wrong thread but i still havent heard from mtu about my problem

[pselph2528]

I don't think rebuilding my song data base will work. The songs (65,000) that were on my external hard drive are gone. I had them stored in G:\songs. when i go to my computer an open G then songs it says EMPTY. The songs are not there.
Paul

[billyo]

Originally Posted by pselph2528

I don't think rebuilding my song data base will work. The songs (65,000) that were on my external hard drive are gone. I had them stored in G:\songs. when i go to my computer an open G then songs it says EMPTY. The songs are not there.
Paul

sorry to hear that..do you have a back-up to where you can copy your songs? .. if not this might and may not work make sure your ext. drive is plugged in and maybe..just maybe if you do a system restore...?

[Beavis]

Originally Posted by pselph2528

I don't think rebuilding my song data base will work. The songs (65,000) that were on my external hard drive are gone. I had them stored in G:\songs. when i go to my computer an open G then songs it says EMPTY. The songs are not there.
Paul

see if they were moved to your c: drive

search your c: drive for .kma

[admin]

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[pselph2528]

I think most of my kma files have been recovered. I took my external HD to a computer guru that does all the computer work for the county (gov) that i live in. He told me today, over the phone, that he had recovered 63,000 kma files, but as of yet we don't know if they are good. He will be coming to my home tonight, or tomorrow. I really won't know if they are good, usable files until i connect to my computer, and try to play them in MTU. I am ecstatic at the thought of having my songs back.

Question: (And please make any answers simple and easy to understand)
If i do get most, but not all of my songs back,my song book, and maybe some the song locations, could be incorrect, would i then go to build song database and do that, or how should i proceed? This may seem like a stupid Question but i really don't know, and i do not want to take any chances of doing the wrong thing. Any guidance will be greatly appreciated
Paul

[Beavis]

if you recover them, i would back them up first !!!

[pselph2528]

YOU bet,i'm just lucky to have had 52000 of um on a back up
Paul

[admin]

Read this Post about Hoster 3.320, and then download and install it.

The problem is in 3.318 and 3.319, now fixed in 3.320.

We too thought we had a virus when we unknowingly lost files not related to Hoster at all. We are confident we found the code that along with Windows' random operations did the NTSF index damage. We are confident we have fixed the problem, but only you folks seeing the problem repeatedly can tell us it is fixed.

Thank you for your patience. We truly are sorry this happened, and believe we have solved it.

[pselph2528]

Admin, I have copletely recovered all my kma files,recopied on to 2 other externals, and plan on coping to a third one(maybe even a fourth one).I would like to thank MTU for there fast , and caring response.I love MTU and all the people that make it truely the best system in the world.
I have Down loaded and installed 3320, and it works prefectly. My Question is should i uninstall 3318 and 3319. Please advise me.

MTU FOREVER

Paul

[ddouglass]

If you have installed 3.320 then it should have overwritten 3.318 and 3.319 so not necessary. Glad you were able to recover. This just goes to show that backing up your KMA files can save a lot of work.

[bryant]

Originally Posted by pselph2528

Admin, I have copletely recovered all my kma files,recopied on to 2 other externals, and plan on coping to a third one(maybe even a fourth one).MTU FOREVER

Paul

I have four copies of all, one on Hard drive of main show computer, one on backup laptop, and two ext. 500Gb HD worth. ONLY WAY. I always bring my backup laptop to gigs.

[admin]

Read MTU's final analysis of what has been going on, and what to do to prevent loosing files in the future.

[admin]

3.321 Released March 11, 2008 at 6:00PM

Come and get it!

[admin]

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