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Old March 6th, 2008, 06:27 PM
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Found 1198 files !!! Now what???

Whoopie...the one program I was suggested to use (yea easy enough for a blond) found 1198 of my kma files...
Now I have them recovered but how do I bring them back into hoster???
Since when entering CD's into hoster, each one is numbered how do I bring these files in so that they will show in the book?
After I upgraded to 3.320 when my files were missing my # started back at 1...
Am I explaining myself here????
Also could these files be damaged now and not work right?? Daah guess I'll find that out when I figure out how to bring them into hoster!!!!
Sorry everyone ....But any help would be great...
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Old March 6th, 2008, 07:03 PM
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First make sure they are backed up in case something happens again. That way you won't have to recover them again.
Second make sure they are moved to the correct folder (C:\MTU\Hoster\Songs) or an external drive, so Vista doesn't delete them again.
Then just rebuild your database in Hoster (Tools/Build Database). Be sure you remove the old folders listed and add the new location before you click on "Build Database" button.
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Old March 7th, 2008, 05:00 AM
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What program did you use? I still havent got mine back and its pissing me off
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Old March 7th, 2008, 06:19 AM
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Well I'm not sure what condition these files are in yet...But I used:

http:\\www.recuva.com

as suggested by our wonderful people here on

MTU...!!!!

Good Luck!!!!
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Old March 8th, 2008, 03:48 PM
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Songs back from cyber space

WOW
Ok so I found a bunch of my lost KMA files...but:::
Upon bringing them into hoster, I found that even though I found alot of them that hoster woundn't pull them up after using building song data base.
My recovered file may of shown 15 songs on a CD being recovered, but hoster would only pull up maybe 6 of them..
I decided to go and step further and check these tracks that were in hoster..
I found: my tracks were actually back from some unknown cyber mission. They came back not playing at all with only an error coming up..
Some came up to play with the words, and no music..
Some came up with music and no words...
I even had some that came up for a split second and then just disappeared!
A couple came back as some foreign bla bla instead of the song title (kinda like "*&-#j9+^%$@) I actually think that track went all the way to Japan and back...Had it of played it probably would of been in Japanese anyhow
I even had one that was an Elvis song, came up with just his face- no music, on words just his face...Must of been a gift from above but sorry to the king, I'll have to delete it...
Just wondered if anyone else who had recovered files had this problem.
And......will I be able to carry my laptop, while using my walker when I finally get this all completed?????
Thanks for all the help!!!! Your all Wonderful!!!!
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Old March 8th, 2008, 03:58 PM
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Every time I hear another horror story it makes me feel warm and fuzzy, knowing I'm not the only one. Sorry to hear of your problems....best wishes my thoughts and prayers are with you... When can we start ripping our cdg's again. Have ALL the bugs been worked out yet??
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Old March 8th, 2008, 07:27 PM
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We expect to release Hoster 3.321 on Monday. It embodies all we have found out about UPGRADING on Vista and how Windows was misbehaving to delete your KMA files. We truly believe 3.321 will work with 2000, XP and Vista.

One of our Beta Testers talked to an HP representative who said HP is not expecting Vista to be ready for public use for 2 more years. HP is allowing users to replace Vista with XP. That's an interesting tidbit.

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Old March 8th, 2008, 11:55 PM
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We expect to release Hoster 3.321 on Monday. It embodies all we have found out about UPGRADING on Vista and how Windows was misbehaving to delete your KMA files. We truly believe 3.321 will work with 2000, XP and Vista.

One of our Beta Testers talked to an HP representative who said HP is not expecting Vista to be ready for public use for 2 more years. HP is allowing users to replace Vista with XP. That's an interesting tidbit.

Wow didn't you all just get finished with 3.320 ??? Do you all every sleep out there???

I do have two more questions, well it's not like I'm gonna leave you alone after these questions, cause like that will probably never happen...haha..
But: I noticed after I recovered my files that I did from Cyber space like I said how weird they alot of them were, is that like normal??? It's like there was noone there to yell out to the files "don't go near the light"....
Second question: I ran the program recuva when I recovered my files, I moved them onto my D drive to hang out there until I got around to checking them out.
But I thought for the heck of it I'd run the recuva program again and see what would happen, it came back with the same stuff again...Like, it didn't really recover the files, but like copied them... It's like I have all this junk on here now that is taking up space. Isn't there a way I can delete these things?? I noticed it said the files were overwritten by another file, bla bla bla...If I right click I have the option to delete....Is it safe for me to delete these now so I can get some space back??? But if it's over written by something else would that be a big boo boo to delete..
Dumb Blond question???? LOL
Thank you SO MUCH FOR ALL YOUR HELP!!!!!
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Old March 9th, 2008, 12:01 AM
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oops I lied already....
One more question:... Is it safe for me to assume if Hoster won't pull up these other files it's because their not good and I should just delete them, and reload those CD's and do them again???
Ok...I think I can shut up for awhile...
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Old March 11th, 2008, 06:21 PM
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3.321 Released March 11, 2008 at 6:00PM

Come and get it!
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Old March 11th, 2008, 06:24 PM
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Do I have to do anything special as far as where my Hoster songs are located? Can I just hook up and download???

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Old March 11th, 2008, 08:17 PM
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What location are your files in currently? I don't think you will have to as long as they are not under C:\Program Files\.....
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Old March 12th, 2008, 08:17 AM
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Do I have to do anything special as far as where my Hoster songs are located? Can I just hook up and download???

Karen
Installing 3.321 has clear instructions you MUST perform, which includes moving your KMA files, and songs.mdb and playlistxxx.hst files you want to keep. We require you click an "I HAVE DONE..." radio button before Hoster will continue.

Moving the files are CRITICAL for Hoster to work reliably under Vista.
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Old March 12th, 2008, 11:07 AM
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I do NOT have Vista. Same for XP?

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Old March 12th, 2008, 11:36 AM
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I do NOT have Vista. Same for XP?

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Recommended but not required for XP.
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