Building The Database

[Wrahn]

Roy,

Except for the time I use the karaoke working drive with the Acer netbook, the working drive and the auto back-up drive are connected. The working drive is "F" and the back-up is "D".

Based on your suggestion to keep a back-up of C:/MTU/Hoster files, I checked and my back-up drive has copied those files and continues to copy them as they are updated.

I believe what happened is I edited some tracks and then used the build database function and there were three folders, one for C one for F and one for D. I guess when I did the re-build I mashed them all together, because I noticed that during the process, the indicator box indicated much more files than I had in F. However, when the re-build was finished it indicated I had about the same number of files as I had in F.

So how do I perform your suggestion: "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."? Won't that just add more files to my working drive rather than change them?

Thanks for your input, now I have a basic idea about how the database works. I also believe now that after editing there is no need to do a re-build, just redo the songbook. At least that's my impression.

Thanks again,

[Roy Dennis]

Originally Posted by Wrahn

Roy,

Except for the time I use the karaoke working drive with the Acer netbook, the working drive and the auto back-up drive are connected. The working drive is "F" and the back-up is "D"

Based on your suggestion to keep a back-up of C:/MTU/Hoster files, I checked and my back-up drive has copied those files and continues to copy them as they are updated.,

The only thing here is if it is too up to date and you want to restore something as it was a week or so ago you may not be able to because it is copying it continuously. As I do a lot of the Beta testing I make a copy of the previous Hoster file before I install a beta version, then if something in the beta version corrupts anything I always have a copy of how it was previously. If I used auto backup for this it would probably copy the corrupted data and I would still be in trouble. So if you see what I'm saying, a copy taken just prior to you performing any updates or major editing and saved seperate from your auto backup could be your Saviour.

Originally Posted by Wrahn

Roy,

I believe what happened is I edited some tracks and then used the build database function and there were three folders, one for C one for F and one for D. I guess when I did the re-build I mashed them all together, because I noticed that during the process, the indicator box indicated much more files than I had in F. However, when the re-build was finished it indicated I had about the same number of files as I had in F.

Yes, you seem to understand how the list works, just remove folders that could have the duplicate files in, which in your case is "D" then if necessary rebuild [/quote]

Originally Posted by Wrahn

Roy,
So how do I perform your suggestion: "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."? Won't that just add more files to my working drive rather than change them? ,

Not if you copy the files inside the temporary folder to the folder containing the original files, it will overwrite the original, you will probably get a dialog appear asking if you want to replace the existing or save both, choose to overwrite. This is not adding the temporary folder to the rebuild list just the files inside the temporary folder.,[/quote]

Originally Posted by Wrahn

Roy,
Thanks for your input, now I have a basic idea about how the database works. I also believe now that after editing there is no need to do a re-build, just redo the songbook. At least that's my impression.
Select All
Thanks again,

Normally after editing you would not need to rebuild the database but if you copy the files from the temporary folder as above you may need to rebuild as this is doing something outside of the edit dialog.

[Ernie]

Don't know if this will help you or not, but I use Allway Sync. It's an awesome program to keep your hard drives duplicated. Try the free version @... http://allwaysync.com/?a=1