Search not finding Hoster Songs

[Beavis]

did you try the repair option when installing hoster ?

make sure the drive letter is not changing.

[mrmacjr]

Beavis
I may not have been specific enough, when I type in Gretchen Wilson it will show some but not all of the songs, I can go to the brand name and pull up the songs and they are there under the brand name and will play properly. I have not changed any settings on the computer or program. The same happens with SHeDaisy. I am not sure what has happened, the Drive name is correct because it pulls up songs and all the songs are in the external hard drive. thanks for the quick reply just not sure what has changed.

[bryant]

If the song is titled "wilson, gretchen" it will look for it in that order alphabetically. The exact spelling and sequence of letters and words are crucial in the search.

Type in wilson, g and see what you get.

[mrmacjr]

Thanks but even it i type gretchen or wilson it does not bring up the song, and when i type the exact song name or a portion of it it does not bring up the song but when i go to the brand disk, this one happens to be ASK1535(All Star Karaoke) it was the only one at the time that had Holdin' You, it comes up and plays. all of my other computers(desktops) work properly and will bring up all the songs, That is what is perplexing me. The laptop is a back up system that I take when I play away from town so that if something happens to the main system I can have the show back up and running in a short time. Also if i click the disc# box it is not recognizing the ASK1535 and yet I have gone in the external hard drive and they are there under that name. I have rebuilt the song database several times and merged KMA's incase it was a duplicate #. I hope that I have provided enough into to explain the problem. again Thanks Guys for any help

[Beavis]

are you running the same version on both computers ? and what version are you running ?

[PastMember]

Do not just "rebuild the database."

You should erase the file songs.mdb and this will force hoster to rebuild the entire database from scratch. If this doesn't work, then make sure that you don't have conflicting bookid's and that all the folders are properly accounted for in the rebuild screen.

[mrmacjr]

On the pc I have Hoster 3.301 and on the laptop i have 3.300. I deleted the songs.mdb and songback up. I rebuilt the database and in the search box it will not find all of the songs by gretchen wilson(using wilson or gretchen) also with sugarland and not sure how many more. I just put 4 more discs in today. I put them in the pc and then copied to an external drive and then copied to the laptop external. when i look up cb60350 on the top portion of hoster it will show the songs but when i use the search box and try to find any of the songs it does not show up. i also tried searching disc# for cb60350 and says it does not exist. I then brought the actual disc to the laptop and reimported it, it still does not locate it in the search function. the other pc's have no problem with this and recognize the songs in the search function. it did show that i have 99 duplicate id#'s and i merged the kma's but still no luck. I am getting a little frustrated when it is just the laptop that this is happening to. thanks for any help you can give, I did not see this in the hoster manual. Maybe I am incorrectly transferring files but do not understand how it words on the towers but not on the laptop