Vista Basic vs Premium 3.315

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by sleflar

Vista may be compliant with the basic version but not premium. You can not run the database from an external hard drive, only the laptops hard drive.
Does anybody else find this to be true? I submitted a supportr ticket a few days ago. However I have had no response from them. Can anybody help?

What do you mean by running the database from the external drive? Do you have Hoster installed on the internal drive or the external? Tell us exactly what you did step by step.

[sleflar]

The program is installed on the laptop.

Just replaced stolen laptop with Hp with Vista Home Premium. Purchased a new Hoster Program on Feb 21st. Program installed ok. When running Build Database, it goes through the processing song db counting 35231. When it completes, it tells me, successfully created 0 entry songs.mdb. Tried several times. No go. Then tried putting one KMA file in another directory, went through the process for that file. It worked but will not work trying to load the 35231 files. ?????????????
What to do?
I've tried to uninstall program and reinstall, same problem.

I found one of the problems. It will only work if the KMA files are on the laptop not an external drive. I tried different externals and the same thing.

[ddouglass]

This is an external Hard Drive, right? Is it USB or Firewire?

[sleflar]

500 gig USB

[Beavis]

you have to make sure the drive letter doent change on the external drive.

[sleflar]

Thanks, but the drive letter is F and when trying to build database, I've selected F.
I believe there is a problem with Hoster working properly with Vista Premium. They claim they tested only basic since it is the most common.
When I put 17,000 KMA files on the laptops hard drive, then when I went to direct it to the songs folder under Micro Technology, the folder wasn't there like it normally is. I created it. It worked fine.
When I directed it to the F drive, it went through all the motions (about a half hour) it had 0 entries.

[ddouglass]

We're talking basic operation with external USB drives here. This is not something that would be different between version levels of the O/S so wouldn't require testing on each level. I would venture to say if you had Vista basic you would still have the same problem.
This sounds like a permissions problem with either the external drive or the songs database file. Is your database file set to default location or did you change it to store the songs.mdb file on the external drive?