I think I lost Everything!!!!

[T and J Karaoke]

Ok I was working on cleaning up my hoster and all the songs when all of the sudden it said that it couldn't find the drive to correct one of the songs. I have all my kma's on an external drive but none on my C: drive. Isn't that what the songs_backup.mdb is for, just in case we loose all our information. If it is how in the world do we get to it to redo it and rebuild my drive. Please someone Help me I have a major show tomorrow!!! And a talent comp this weekend. Now it says I only have 2000 Kma songs and I had over 18,000. What do I do!!!!!!!!!

[mindonstrike]

to get songsbackup to work you have to change its name to songs.

Go to "My Computer" and see if Windows is seeing your external drive. If not that would explain alot, bad cable or bad drive probably.

Also check and make sure the external HD has the correct drive letter.

If Windows can see and explore it, you can check for your other KMA's, if they are there just rebuild the database.

[ddouglass]

The database only stores the location of the KMA files, Artist name, Title and some other information, but not the files themselves. If you edit a song (change something in the title or a characteristic when you hit apply this information is saved to the database and to the KMA file header. With the error message you got it is saying that Hoster cannot find the file to save the new information to. This indicates a problem with the drive not with the database.
Run Chkdsk on the drive to check for problems. If there are a lot of Bad Sectors it is time to replace the drive....quickly. You should have a back-up of all your KMA files to keep this from being a major problem.

[T and J Karaoke]

Right now I am doing a data recovery to see if I can find the kma files. I am crossing my fingers and hoping to the lord up above that this works but I don't think it will. I just hope that I don't have to start all over again. If that don't work I will go ahead and do what you told me to.

Thank you

Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated. This should have never happened and I can't understand how it did, when one minute they are all on there and the next they are all gone.

[ddouglass]

It's called hard drive failure....it happens and that is why back-ups are so important. Hard drives use magnetic media to store information in a tiny area. The problem is the material can deteriorate, the head(s) can get out of alignment, and any number of other problems.

[madjim- with the Lord]

Originally Posted by ddouglass

It's called hard drive failure....it happens and that is why back-ups are so important. Hard drives use magnetic media to store information in a tiny area. The problem is the material can deteriorate, the head(s) can get out of alignment, and any number of other problems.

I lost the hard drive in on of my machines last year BUT I had a backup of my KMA's. T and J, you are not alone, just lessons to learn like everything else in life. FATHER (GOD) is awsome and will see that you get through. He puts nothing on us that we can't handle.

I pray that all works out for you!

Jim

[ddouglass]

According to your database there are only 16,088 song files and they are in H:\Hoster Songs.

[T and J Karaoke]

But how do I retrieve it if it don't go back to the h: drive in my home computer. How am I going to rebuild the database.

[T and J Karaoke]

is there anything in this one??

[mindonstrike]

18118 ind the backup. and they are at F:\Hoster Songs\.

Sam

[T and J Karaoke]

ok now how do I retrieve them cause when I go to my external hard drive it only shows 2437 in the F:Drive