moving on to a new computer

[nfountai]

I have a similar situation.
I am using Ver. 4.3. I want to keep my old computer as is since I use multiple computers and have the licenses. I want to be able to use my external hard drive with both. I told the computers that the external hard drive is the same letter on both.
The problem I have on the new computer is that the "C:\USER" folder is not the same as the old computer. When I do a song search, the "C\USER" error pops up and is different than what is on the old computer.
I'm not sure what to do or change

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by nfountai

I have a similar situation.
I am using Ver. 4.3. I want to keep my old computer as is since I use multiple computers and have the licenses. I want to be able to use my external hard drive with both. I told the computers that the external hard drive is the same letter on both.
The problem I have on the new computer is that the "C:\USER" folder is not the same as the old computer. When I do a song search, the "C\USER" error pops up and is different than what is on the old computer.
I'm not sure what to do or change

Is this a new Windows 7 computer? Have you done all the recommended changes for Windows 7 on this computer? Also are you using the same version of Hoster on both computers?
The link if you need it for the Windows 7 changes is as follows:
http://www.mtu.com/upgrades/hoster/windows7-changes.htm

[nfountai]

yes to all the questions

[Roy Dennis]

Originally Posted by nfountai

I have a similar situation.
I am using Ver. 4.3. I want to keep my old computer as is since I use multiple computers and have the licenses. I want to be able to use my external hard drive with both. I told the computers that the external hard drive is the same letter on both.
The problem I have on the new computer is that the "C:\USER" folder is not the same as the old computer. When I do a song search, the "C\USER" error pops up and is different than what is on the old computer.
I'm not sure what to do or change

Hoster is normally in the C:/MTU folder (C:/MTU/Hoster) Thats the path it should be on all your computers. I don't know where you get "C\USER" from.

Then your external drive with all your songs on could be anything but probably E:/xxxxx or F:/xxxxx (xxxxx being your song folder on that drive)

With your hard drive attached go Start/My Computer, is the external showing the same volume letter when plugged in to all computers?

As long as the external registered as the same on all computers there should be no problem.

[nfountai]

When I do a search for a song on the new computer and click on the song that I want (song files on the external hard drive), a pop up window says "Bad Zip File C:\USER\neilymon\AppData\Local\Temp\MTU_Hoster\auout-2.zzz"

Now on the other computer, the folder is Not neilymon but neil

[nfountai]

When I click on the song to play that is the message

[Roy Dennis]

When you installed Hoster on your new computer, did you change the default path ?

[nfountai]

yes. I used the Windows trouble shoot program to guide me to keeping the same drive letter on both computers.

[Roy Dennis]

If you open your Tools/Songs database/Build database, in the dialog bottom left window, do the file paths in the indexed folders lists match on both computers ?