I think I lost Everything!!!!

[T and J Karaoke]

Thank you so much everyone for your help. I will try this after this weekend. I have a show all weekend long so therefore I don't want to screw nothing up just yet! LOL

[mindonstrike]

After reading all the posts again it does look like vista is hiding them from you and XP, but not Hoster on Vista, which is really strange because I've had Hoster on a Vista laptop for over a year and never ever had any issues with KMA's (or any files) on the external drive nor the internal D drive partitioned with C, I only encountered weird things on C itself.

Like swany said if Vista is hiding them you should have a "compatibility files" button at the top of the F or F\Hoster songs folder that will show those to you.

Sam

[T and J Karaoke]

ok guess what. Problem solved. I don't know what happened but vista asked me to combine files and I did and low and behold all 18,000 were back on my F: Drive. Now next step! By another external so this don't happen again. Thank you to everyone trying to help me on this matter. Everyone was great!!!

[madjim- with the Lord]

Jennifer,
I'm glad we got you back on track.

Jim

[swany]

I see this problem from time to time on this site. This is with older Vista and Hoster 3.317 (Note their finally is a patch for Vista I was going nuts with it at my home pc and got it, guess what it is like fix a flat it gets you going I'm still not convinced)

Here is what I've learned. Okay the compatability files does find them for you.

Here is another scenario. I made a file Hoster songs loaded my kma files to it. I can access all of these anytime I want.

When I load in new files from CD they are hidden and I cannot find them using them search from the hard drive. But show up using hosters search. Ol dummy me did not use his sense when using hosters down load. It does state they are going to Hoster/songs not Hoster songs When your music is gone and it tells you where it is it is there. Go to computer, program files, Micro Technology Unlimited, Hoster, at this point go to Organize, folder and search options, View, click show hidden files and folders, and apply. Your songs or songs file should appear. (At this point the file Hoster/songs appears and can be searched on my PC) If you still don't see all the files click compatability at this point.


I do hope my bumbling and never give up attitude helps others. Me I'm going to fix all this BS on my PC by removing all of them and reloading in one area away from Hoster as the newest version does.

[admin]

Gentlemen, thank you for helping Jennifer here.

What can I say... we do NOT recommend Vista.

The problem is how to upgrade from XP where KMA files are safe no matter where they are, to Vista which can hide, auto-move and even DELETE them!

As Swany pointed out, Hoster 3.321, when all our "conversion" recommendations are followed, makes the files appear.

We spent over a man-month of time crawling through what Vista was doing, and it was very, very hidden. We finally, on our last day before I totally abandoned Vista support, found a Microsoft document (a new one that had appeared) that explained all the screwiness in Vista's file system. It is truly incredible the assumptions they are making to "protect you" from doing what you WANT to do!

[ddouglass]

Admin, do you have a link to that document? I want to try and keep up with Microsoft's quirks.