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Originally Posted by gators66

Before my external drive fiasco I used my internal drive on my primary hoster laptop. After moving kma files from internal drive to external I can no longer use the internal files. They are listed in the K-OKE file on hoster but hoster no longer recognizes them.

Now, after taking the external drive and plugging it into my backup hoster laptop with no songs (didnt put any on this laptop) it automatically puts the transferred songs in the k-oke file. However, I cannot search for songs by title, disc, etc. The only way to find out the song name is to highlight any one song and play it.

Gators66

When you moved your kma files to an external drive was it because you lacked storage space on c:drive? (as per Lonman's request). If you were not out of space, maybe just copying the kma files to a second drive, would have been a better move, so you would have established a backup of all your karaoke kma's.

I don't know which external drive you purchased, but with the prices coming down on all sizes, it would behoove you to buy a second or even a third, for backing up your kma files for protective purposes, and peace of mind.

Every time you move the hard drive (external) from one computer to the other, you have to rebuild the database to let Hoster in that computer know where to look for your stored kma files. Different usb ports will change the drive letter that the computer assigns. So look in MY Computer, to see which drive letter, in case it is different, that the computer assigned to your external drive.

When you add to one hard drive, you'll probably want to make sure all the drives are synchronized, or are the same, so what I have been using is a software program called File Synchronizer 4.0.4 by Latshaw Systems that one of the other KJ's on this forum reccomended. It copies your new additions or changes from one folder to another, or from one drive to another.

Backup! Backup! Backup!

Good Luck!

Rick
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