Building The Database

[Roy Dennis]

Originally Posted by Wrahn

I've put a lot of hours into editing my database only to learn that half way through the three days of editing I ended up with the wrong drive being used to rebuild my database. I can access both drives and I now know I added the files to my working drive and by looking at the date of some of the files I could tell I started editing on that drive. Somehow I was switched to the back-up drive and then I spent the last few days editing those files rather than the working drive. I was able to copy most of tracks I edited to a temp file, but now need to figure out how to replace them for the ones on the working drive. I think I'm in a mess and will just have to go back to the working drive and start editing it all over again. .

First off do you always have both the back up external hard drive and your working hard drive connected all the time ?
If so it is safest to connect both drives before starting your computer
Or do you just swap them when necessary ?
If you swap them when necessary or connect them in random order you have to be aware that windows sometimes changes their volume letter, Example if you made your working hard drive E and your backup drive F it is quite possible that if you plug in The backup drive F without the other drive connected windows may change that to E as well without you realizing it.

Originally Posted by Wrahn

So to clarify my understanding in simple terms, when I build the database, I need to select the folder where the working drive files are stored and exclude the folder in the back-up drive. When the database is built, then Hoster will look for the tracks in the working drive and not in the backup drive. When I want to edit Hoster will only open the working drive tracks and they can then be edited. The songbook is based on what is in the database so any change requires a change in the songbook. Is my understanding correct, or am I missing something?.

Yes,

.If you do have both drives connected all the time then as you suggest excluding that folder should be the answer

Originally Posted by Wrahn

Thanks for any feedback you can provide, and if you know a way I can save three days worth of editing, please share it with me.

Where you saved those files to a temporary file why can't you just copy & Paste them over the original files then either rebuild the database or highlight the folder containing them and select Rescan.

One thing I keep a backup of myself is the complete "Hoster folder" which is found in C:/MTU/Hoster this contains records of all your Playlists, Songs.Mdb, Singers Mdb and lots of other recoverable data.