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[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by bryant

Dale,
Out of curiosity, what does get deleted when we delete the song.mdb database file? In other words, what does this file contain?
Bryant

Songs.mdb is a database file that tells Hoster all the information about the kma files including the location (path) to the file needed. Consider songs.mdb as a road map for Hoster. Just because you throw away the road map doesn't mean the roads aren't still there. This could be done directly from the kma file, but would be extremely slow as Hoster would have to read the header for each kma file to find the one it was looking for.

[bryant]

I see, then what physically happens when one deletes a song.mdb file. How and when does it return?

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by bryant

I see, then what physically happens when one deletes a song.mdb file. How and when does it return?

When you "rebuild the database" a new file with the same name is created.