Transfer All Song Files To external Drive

[laddie]

Joe,
I am curious, my older .hst files show a drive path, but my new ones do not.
If you open your list in 4.06, add a song to it and then save it as a new name, does it still have drive path information. Again, I'm only curious

[Joe Nieves]

Hi laddie

The answer is yes, Hoster 4.6a logs the drive peth of each song file in you're playlist listings.

Is there another way or program that doesn't have an adverse effect on the playlist file when edited?


Thanks

Joe....

[laddie]

Originally Posted by Joe Nieves

Hi laddie

The answer is yes, Hoster 4.6a logs the drive peth of each song file in you're playlist listings.

Is there another way or program that doesn't have an adverse effect on the playlist file when edited?


Thanks

Joe....

Sorry Joe, all out of ideas.

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by Joe Nieves

Hi laddie

The answer is yes, Hoster 4.6a logs the drive peth of each song file in you're playlist listings.

Is there another way or program that doesn't have an adverse effect on the playlist file when edited?


Thanks

Joe....

Joe that is what we have been trying to tell you all along. There is no way for you to edit the HST files.

[Joe Nieves]

Hi ddouglass

Question

If it can be seen why can't it be edited, you only need to change the drive path from c:\ to e:\ ?

Any input is appreciated.


Thx Joe...

[ddouglass]

Because when you save it Notepad or Wordpad or whatever program you are viewing it with changes other characters (notice the square boxes) that makes it unusable in Hoster.

[marklwood]

Originally Posted by ddouglass

Because when you save it Notepad or Wordpad or whatever program you are viewing it with changes other characters (notice the square boxes) that makes it unusable in Hoster.

I am not going to try it because I don't have any playlist files, and don't care to ever have them but, how about a hex editor? I used to change text in .exe files back in the old DOS 3.0 days just to mess with people. I can't even remember what hex editor I used, but it was probably Norton.

[capnvic]

BTW this is a moot point, but If you want to move many files from one location to another I suggest that you use microsoft robocopy. You can download it to you computer from MS for nothing, they also offer a web based API for it as well.