database rebuild didnt include edited songs

[bryant]

Originally Posted by ddouglass

compare the Date Modified between the two computers of an edited file. If the "backup" date is older then you were not sucessful in copying the "new" file to the backup computer.

This was one of the things I did look for when I first noticed the problem. I saw that the six or so files I edited on disc 907 were still dated as the same as the rest of the songs on disc 907(ones that WERE NOT changed)., indicating the backup program will never get them, and hasn't gotten all the prior ones either.

I know in Virtual DJ you have to copy a small file over to the backup computer (virtual DJ database.xml) for the only way for edited songs to be seen on the backup.

Is this precisely the same deal as Hoster.

1) Backup songs to external backup drive.
2) Copy songs database file over to backup computer
3) Then rebuild database on backup computer with the backup hard Drive hooked up.

Is this my only recourse, In other words, is this what has to be done every time?

Please help and thanx so far.

Bryant

[mindonstrike]

I reinstalled 3310 on 2 of my computers to fully check this out
This is what I did: I imported 14 songs from a disk (SC8989), put them in the playlist and checked them out. I then went to edit songs and added "edit BR" (for Bryant) to the title of the first 7 seven tracks of that disk. Checked them in the playlist and noted the change in title. Checked the date and time stamp on them through windows and noted the appropriate files had new modification times. I copied all 14 of them to my external HD and moved it to the other computerand rebuilt the database using the external drive and added the tracks to the playlist and noted all of the edited names were present and they played with no problems.

To try and recreate Beavis's problem I cut and pasted those files from the external HD to my computer, deleted the songs, backup songs and temp database files and rebuilt the database, and again checked them in the playlist. I then went to edit songs and changed the BR in the first 7 song titles to BE. Checked them on the playlist and noted the change, I checked the time stamp in Windows again and noted the change and then copied them back onto my external HD and from there copied them back to the original computer. When Windows asked me if I wanted to replace the origianl files I told it yes to all. I then rebuilt the database on that computer and all the files that were BR in the title were now BE.

My conclusion was that Hoster is changing the header information on the individual files like it should, not just changing the songs.mdb database file, so I can so no Hoster related reason why they aren't changing for you guys.

Sam

[bryant]

Originally Posted by mindonstrike

I reinstalled 3310 on 2 of my computers to fully check this out
This is what I did: I imported 14 songs from a disk (SC8989), put them in the playlist and checked them out. I then went to edit songs and added "edit BR" (for Bryant) to the title of the first 7 seven tracks of that disk. Checked them in the playlist and noted the change in title. Checked the date and time stamp on them through windows and noted the appropriate files had new modification times. I copied all 14 of them to my external HD and moved it to the other computerand rebuilt the database using the external drive and added the tracks to the playlist and noted all of the edited names were present and they played with no problems.


Sam

This is what happened:
You imported a new disc into the system, edited or not it was a new file. The ones you edited were new files as edited. Windows should and did pick up those new files.

You needed to edit a file that was already in the system
to truly test my condition.
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[mindonstrike]

Originally Posted by bryant

This was one of the things I did look for when I first noticed the problem. I saw that the six or so files I edited on disc 907 were still dated as the same as the rest of the songs on disc 907(ones that WERE NOT changed)., indicating the backup program will never get them, and hasn't gotten all the prior ones either.

I just noticed the mention that you use a backup program. I do all mine manually so I'm not familiar how these work but could there be a setting relating to modified files that's not set correctly?

I would try moving them manually one time and if it works then you'll know there's a problem with your backup program.

Sam

[bryant]

Originally Posted by mindonstrike

I just noticed the mention that you use a backup program. I do all mine manually so I'm not familiar how these work but could there be a setting relating to modified files that's not set correctly?

Sam

sam,
Also, before I had the backup program which really does do a nice job, I manually checked for modified dates in the original kma folder and copied those beyond the last date.
Even using this method, we will always NEVER GET the modified files because their date did not change!
Bryant