singer search slow

[Roy Dennis]

Originally Posted by bugspappaw

I have a Dell XP 2gb hard drive with a 500gb external harddrive where I have stored my karaoke files. Thanks.
bugspappaw

You have probably made a mistake in your above statement when you say you have a 2gb hard drive on your dell computer. I exspect you mean memory.

There are several things you could do, check how much free space you have on your c:/ drive they recommend to have at least 25% free, defrag your hard drive, another thing that can help is to leave the window open but minimize it to the task bar till you need it.
The more you add to it the longer it will take to open, you may want to edit it if it's getting unmanageable.

[bugspappaw]

Thanks. I have already deleted stuff from the computer, defragged my hard drive, and I do leave the window open. I am running 4.21 but I will be upgrading to 4.32 next week. I'm hoping that will take care of it. I am going to start deleting some of my singers and or selections this weekend also.

[ddouglass]

What Roy was saying about too much is if you have a lot of singers with a large amount of songs for each then it will be slow to open and can cause problems if it is a very large selection.

[bugspappaw]

Well, my singer database got corrupted last night in the middle of my show. THe name title completely disappeared and I couldn't add anything to the singers database. Adding was not a problem for me since it would put the song on the list to sing. It was my fault as I deleted singers from the database after I deleted their songs in the Hoster search. That wasn't a good idea. Now I've got to find out how to reindex the database because I don't want to add the other singers back. ANy suggestions?

[Roy Dennis]

Afraid you've lost me here. Are you adding singers from the search dialog or from the main screen book id widow or some other way?
When you say "Title" completely disappeared, are you referring to the Title tab at the top of the search window or the column Title below the key change buttons in the search window ?

Or are you referring to the Title column on the main screen or some other Title ?

You delete singers from the singers tab in the Singers database.
If you just want to delete some of their songs not the singer select the songs tab and delete from there.

When you say you deleted songs from Hoster search, how did you do that as there isn't a delete button there.

Or did you mean Hoster Edit dialog ? If you deleted songs from there then they would have to be re-imported.

[bugspappaw]

I upgraded to 4.32 and my singer/song datbase is not working properly. WHen I pull up a singer, I get the singer but sometimes I don't get their songs. I get someone else's songs under their name. I have to hit enter several times to get it to re-index. SOmetimes it does sometimes it doesnt. Also, sometimes when I add a new song to their database, it puts their name out twice in the list. It eventually corrects itself and shows just one name. It seems the index problem happens about half-way through the singer search. I have looked at the Access databases and the ratio of songs to singer and id's to singer look correct. I did have problems in the past from where I had deleted singers and songs and had to manually adjust them in ACCESS, but they look ok. Is there anyway to reindex the database without totally wiping it out and readding the singers and songs manually? This problem just compounds the slowness of the song returns for my singers. THanks.

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by bugspappaw

I upgraded to 4.32 and my singer/song datbase is not working properly. WHen I pull up a singer, I get the singer but sometimes I don't get their songs. I get someone else's songs under their name. I have to hit enter several times to get it to re-index. SOmetimes it does sometimes it doesnt. Also, sometimes when I add a new song to their database, it puts their name out twice in the list. It eventually corrects itself and shows just one name. It seems the index problem happens about half-way through the singer search. I have looked at the Access databases and the ratio of songs to singer and id's to singer look correct. I did have problems in the past from where I had deleted singers and songs and had to manually adjust them in ACCESS, but they look ok. Is there anyway to reindex the database without totally wiping it out and readding the singers and songs manually? This problem just compounds the slowness of the song returns for my singers. THanks.

From your previous posts and now this it sounds like your singer's database is still corrupted. You may have caused that by making changes in Access. Hoster uses the older format for Access from Access 97 and if you have made adjustment/changes in a newer version then this can cause problems.
There is no way to re-index it like you can do with the Songs database. So manually re-entering them may be the only way to do it. The way I would do this is to rename the existing file so Hoster doesn't see it. Then open the renamed db in Access and use it to guide you through re-entering the data in Hoster.