I think I lost Everything!!!!

[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

[Beavis]

did you search the hard drive for kma's using search feature in windows??

[T and J Karaoke]

Beavis to answer your question. Yes I did and I only found 2437 files when I originally had 18694 files.

Now what happened last night! Everything worked as normal. All my Karaoke was there. How it was there I don't know????? All my songs were there but when I looked at the external hard drive it still showed only 2437 files. It did crash on me last night cause I added a song on that was not in my books and I had to restart. But once I did, it was back to normal. I am so scared to rebuild my database in fear that I am going to loose all my work. Everything that I loaded! The thing that puzzles me is where in the heck is hoster getting these files from if not from my C: drive and not from my F: external? I am so comfused it isn't even funny!

Thank you to all who is trying to help!

[hwheeler43]

This may be off base but you might want to go to the Tools menu and select Build Songs Database on the machine where you can see your files. This should give you a clue as to which folders your songs are under. You can then copy them back to a folder on your external for backup purposes.

[T and J Karaoke]

wheeler,

See that is the thing... I don't see the files at all on my laptop nor my home computer. My external drive only shows 2437 files or so. I have over 18,000 files in hoster. When I ran my show tuesday, I don't have a clue on where it was getting the music from if there are only 2000 on my external hard drive and there is no songs in my songs file in my C: drive. Call me stupid but I am so confused on where hoster is pulling these up from. I am going to go ahead and do a search again to see if I can find them but I did that once before and only found 2437 on the F: external drive. Do you think I just need to do it off the laptop where it is finding all the files? The laptop is Vista. Oh and another thing. I have been running vista with hoster on 3.316 for a year now and have not really had a problem like this before. Madjim said it might be cause I switch between the home computer which is xp and the laptop which is vista. I will tell you the only thing that I did do different is upgrade 3.321 on my home computer. I am too scared to upgrade my vista for it has been working fine.

[ddouglass]

Are C: and F: the only hard drives on the laptop?
Do a search of the whole C: drive and that should tell you where the files are. My guess would be that they are either still under
C:\Program Files\Micro Technologies Unlimited\Hoster\Songs or
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\Shared Music\...
When you find them I would move them all to C:\MTU\KMA Files. This way Vista won't mess with them.
You would be better off to upgrade the laptop to 3.321 and get it all correctly installed. The version you are running is not really setup correctly for Vista and at some point Vista will rear its ugly head and bite you.

[mindonstrike]

Originally Posted by T and J Karaoke

wheeler,

See that is the thing... I don't see the files at all on my laptop nor my home computer. My external drive only shows 2437 files or so. I have over 18,000 files in hoster. When I ran my show tuesday, I don't have a clue on where it was getting the music from if there are only 2000 on my external hard drive and there is no songs in my songs file in my C: drive. Call me stupid but I am so confused on where hoster is pulling these up from. I am going to go ahead and do a search again to see if I can find them but I did that once before and only found 2437 on the F: external drive. Do you think I just need to do it off the laptop where it is finding all the files? The laptop is Vista. Oh and another thing. I have been running vista with hoster on 3.316 for a year now and have not really had a problem like this before. Madjim said it might be cause I switch between the home computer which is xp and the laptop which is vista. I will tell you the only thing that I did do different is upgrade 3.321 on my home computer. I am too scared to upgrade my vista for it has been working fine.

If you want to go to C\MTU\Hoster, make a copy of Songs.mdb paste it to your desktop and zip it and then use the manage attachments when posting and upload it with a post, one of us with Access can open it and tell you exactly where your KMA's are.

Sam

[T and J Karaoke]

Sam here is the zipped file that you asked for.

[marklwood]

Originally Posted by T and J Karaoke

Beavis to answer your question. Yes I did and I only found 2437 files when I originally had 18694 files.

The thing that puzzles me is where in the heck is hoster getting these files from if not from my C: drive and not from my F: external? I am so comfused it isn't even funny!

Thank you to all who is trying to help!

Start button.....Search......all files and folders......all drives.......*.kma....should get 18964 results, and list where they are all at. Go to the folder that you didn't know about. Select all and move to where you want them. ie. F:\Songs. On a USB drive this should only take abaout a day and a half. Then rebuild your database selecting ONLY that folder. Remove the other entries in the build database list.

Just kidding, it will take some time though.

[madjim- with the Lord]

Originally Posted by T and J Karaoke

Everything worked as normal.

This is good news! it means the KMA files have not been deleted, you just have to figure out where they are and put them all in one folder as Dale suggested. Keep working on it. Once you find your KMA's and put them in the same folder, select this folder in the Build Database window and rebuild (not merge) the database.

Jim

[T and J Karaoke]

going to try that after this weekend is over
don't want to loose what I have. Thank you for all your help. I will keep you updated on what happens.

[madjim- with the Lord]

Have a great weekend!

Jim