rebuilding songdata base

[billyo]

a friend of mine brought her laptop over, she just copied her songs from one drive to a bigger hhd, the guy that did it for her added her name to the original ext drives letter ( ie janedoeE: ) , now she was also telling me that some names on her singers playlist had disappeared, and also when they rebuilt the song database some of the songs won't come up and her songs went from 30k to 25k, i just did a comparison of the drive it seems that all are in there, i've been rebuilding the database for an hr. now, it only has 25,583, it seems that it's rebuilding it in real time, i have a show to do in an hr. and i've tried cancelling it but it still keeps going .by adding her name on the drive would that caused any problem when rebuilding the database?

[ddouglass]

It wouldn't cause a problem with the Rebuild, but would cause a problem with playlists and Singers database listings (by missing I am assuming you mean song file names missing in Singers Database and not Singers Names).
Are any of those song file in sub-folders on that drive?
If so are all sub-folder paths listed in the Rebuild list?
What version of Hoster?

[billyo]

I think its missing in the song database,I had to closed hoster since it wouldn't cancell and I had to play tonight,and also when I tried to look if there was any files on a separate folder,there was some in c drive,but when I opened the drive there wasn't any

[Skybird74]

Originally Posted by billyo

a friend of mine brought her laptop over, she just copied her songs from one drive to a bigger hhd, the guy that did it for her added her name to the original ext drives letter ( ie janedoeE: ) , now she was also telling me that some names on her singers playlist had disappeared, and also when they rebuilt the song database some of the songs won't come up and her songs went from 30k to 25k, i just did a comparison of the drive it seems that all are in there, i've been rebuilding the database for an hr. now, it only has 25,583, it seems that it's rebuilding it in real time, i have a show to do in an hr. and i've tried cancelling it but it still keeps going .by adding her name on the drive would that caused any problem when rebuilding the database?

When you copy songs from one HD to another, you have to rename the new HD the same as the old one. Songs in playlists cannot be found by Hoster, even after a rebuild, if the "filepath" is changed. In other words - When you rebuild, Hoster will recognize new locations for songs. BUT, "playlists" & "singers database" only have the old filepath recorded.

I have been using the same Playlists from Day 1. My old ext. HD was named "K". A couple years later, I got a new/larger portable HD and transferred all my songs to it. When I tried using old playlists, Hoster didn't know where to look. I then renamed the new HD to "K" then I could use all the old playlists.

Hope this helps!

[billyo]

Originally Posted by Skybird74

When you copy songs from one HD to another, you have to rename the new HD the same as the old one. Songs in playlists cannot be found by Hoster, even after a rebuild, if the "filepath" is changed. In other words - When you rebuild, Hoster will recognize new locations for songs. BUT, "playlists" & "singers database" only have the old filepath recorded.

I have been using the same Playlists from Day 1. My old ext. HD was named "K". A couple years later, I got a new/larger portable HD and transferred all my songs to it. When I tried using old playlists, Hoster didn't know where to look. I then renamed the new HD to "K" then I could use all the old playlists.

Hope this helps!

i was about to do that, the problem is she wanted to be able to plug this hhd(s) to her back-up laptop, just in case something happens to her show laptop, and she has other people that helps her out that i think never ran hoster before, thats where my problem begins, i had to find out what they did..and also she couldn't tell me what she really wanted to do, i wanted to tell her to get another extra drive for her back-up laptop and .... but anyway thanks for the suggestion/help..and also she does her search on the singers list, the only time she search for a song was if she has new people in.