New/Old Computer, Two Versions of Hoster & One External Drive

[Skybird74]

Originally Posted by Nitecat

OK, good to know. Thanks so much Roy. I can easily use different external drives for each laptop. I could even put the music on the C drive of the newer computer and not use an external drive. Surely that would work too, or do I need to use the same drive number for both?? I've seen something about that on here. I guess I'll have to be careful when adding new music to get it onto both. I was mainly worried about the Book IDs being the same, so my song books would still be correct for both. Now I just need to decide how I want to connect the video for the TVs. I am using s-video on my old laptop and of course I don't have that on my newer laptop. My old laptop is using something like version 3.12 (without going to my gear trailer and looking).

From my personal experience, you can rebuild and Hoster will know where to find the songs. But any Playlists that you have saved will only know the drive letter that was used when the songs were added to each individual Playlist. For that reason, when I use a different computer, I always keep my ext. drive the same letter as when I started using Hoster in 2006, because I still refer back to and use old Playlists when I do Show where I do all the singing.