I think I lost Everything!!!!

[T and J Karaoke]

You are not going to believe this. ok when the drive looked like it lost everything, I was deleting files off of my home computer and updating my books. The version I have on my home computer is 3.321. I decided to see if the worst was yet to come and just hook the external hard drive up to my laptop and have it give me a message such as: F/ cannot find FMA file. Well low and behold all the songs are on there. They are not on my hard drive. I don't know where they are pulling the songs from cause I went into mtu/hoster/songs and they aren't there either but I am not complaining. The only thing I am wondering is where in the heck is it coming from. I wonder. This is definatly an admin issue don't you think? My hard drive didn't crash at all because the other files are on there just fine. I have no viruses. I did a recovery and it didn't find the missing files. Oh lord I am dumb when it comes to this tedious stuff!!!! Does someone have an intelligent answer in plain english!

[madjim- with the Lord]

Originally Posted by T and J Karaoke

You are not going to believe this. ok when the drive looked like it lost everything, I was deleting files off of my home computer and updating my books. The version I have on my home computer is 3.321. I decided to see if the worst was yet to come and just hook the external hard drive up to my laptop and have it give me a message such as: F/ cannot find FMA file. Well low and behold all the songs are on there. They are not on my hard drive. I don't know where they are pulling the songs from cause I went into mtu/hoster/songs and they aren't there either but I am not complaining. The only thing I am wondering is where in the heck is it coming from. I wonder. This is definatly an admin issue don't you think? My hard drive didn't crash at all because the other files are on there just fine. I have no viruses. I did a recovery and it didn't find the missing files. Oh lord I am dumb when it comes to this tedious stuff!!!! Does someone have an intelligent answer in plain english!

Thank GOD you have your KMA files. Please go to Wal-Mart (or wherever) and buy another external hard drive and make a backup copy of all of your KMA files before you do anything else.

The conclution that your hard drive failed came from your description of the problem, I'm glad to hear this is not the case.

It sounds to me like you have all of your KMA files on an external drive which is common and works well. Plug in your external drive with your KMA files on it then go to Tools, Build Songs Database and delete all folders except the one on your external drive that holds your KMA files then rebuild your database. (Be sure to print your "new songs" page for your songbook before you do this ) This should get you back on track.

I hope this helps.

Jim

[T and J Karaoke]

I only use my external hard drive. Some way some how it is on my laptop though. If I go ahead and rebuild my database, where am I going to rebuild it from? I cannot find it on my laptop at all! I am soo frustrated it isn't even funny. I am scared that if I even try to do anything like that it is going to crash. I will be getting me another external hard drive but what is weird is that what is on my external hard drive is fine. I have alot of karaoke that isn't even loaded into hoster yet on there and it is just fine. One of the files is hoster though and that is where I load all the kma files. I usually use my home laptop to transfer files over to my external rather then break out the laptop. Do you still think it would be my external Hard drive even though I have other stuff on it that is fine?

[madjim- with the Lord]

When you plug the external drive into your computer or your laptop through a USB port, it should see the drive and give it a letter like "E" or "F". Is this happening?

Hoster should be installed on your "C" drive. Is this the case?

Jim

[T and J Karaoke]

Yes to both. Hoster is installed on my C: Drive but I save all my Kma's onto my external drive which is my F: Drive. It would be better to talk on the phone I am messageing you on Myspace with my number ok.

[madjim- with the Lord]

Originally Posted by T and J Karaoke

Yes to both. Hoster is installed on my C: Drive but I save all my Kma's onto my external drive which is my F: Drive. It would be better to talk on the phone I am messageing you on Myspace with my number ok.

Okay

Jim

[madjim- with the Lord]

Jennifer has 3.321 on her home machine running XP.
She has 3.316 on her laptop running Vista.
She has her KMA files in a folder on an external drive.
She was deleting KMA file on her home machine (XP) through Hoster using the Edit Songs feature when this problem occoured.
I got her to custom update her version of XP.
She said she ran scandisc on the external hard drive and it did not find any bad sectors.
She has a show tonight and is going to use her laptop. She will give an update of the problem afterwards.
I don't run Vista so I can't hellp her in that department.
She is not very computer literate so keep all explaination and questions as simple as possible.

Thanks Everybody!

Jim