crap what happen

[ddouglass]

How did you rebuild the database on the 2nd laptop? Add or Rebuild?
If you used Add it may have changed the numbers.
If so try deleting all the KMA files, delete the Songs.mdb and Songs_backup.mdb files and re-copying the KMA files from the original again and open Hoster again. That should trigger it to rebuild the database again and fix it. If it doesn't automatically rebuild then use the Tools Rebuild and do it.

[gotrich]

I believe I did add. then i deleted the db and tried rebuild.. and got same result both times
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what do i do

[gotrich]

it also says i have duplicate files. the duplicates are the songs that took over. How do I fix duplicate files. I looked at the manual but am confused

[mindonstrike]

Originally Posted by gotrich

I believe I did add. then i deleted the db and tried rebuild.. and got same result both times
.

what do i do

Once has changed the kma header, it is a permanant change, rebuilding won't change it back. Like Dale said you need to delete the kma's and the db. Bring in the kma's from your other computer again and rebuild the database. The duplicate diskid thing may go away at this point at well.

Sam

[gotrich]

I don't understand!

[mindonstrike]

REBUILD at this point will only reflect the changes to the kma header that occured when you used ADD. The only way to undo this is to delete the changed kma's and bring in fresh copies of kma's from your other computer and use "Build Database" instead of add.

Not sure why using ADD caused this problem in the first place unless there's some issue with using it when no database exists for it to add to in the first place.

Sam

[marklwood]

gotrich,
I have a possible reason for both situations. Did you have any KMAs on the C:\ drive to test your install? That, along with the add rebuild would cause this exact issue. What these guys are telling you is to start over.

Do a computer wide search for .KMA and delete all files from all drives. Then delete the database, songs.mdb and its backup backup_songs.mdb. Then copy all the KMA files from your other computer again. These will have the correct header information for the song numbers on your other machine. They were not changed by the rebuild/add process. Then when you open Hoster it will automatically find the song # information stored in the header of the KMA files from youe other machine and match what you have on both machines.

[gotrich]

on machine 2 i deleted all databases bu song singer..ALL datbases. I also delted all KMA on machine 2.

From machine 1 i am transfering the KMA to mach 2.

Now when i open hoster on machine 2 do i go to tools / song database then...

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by gotrich

I believe I did add. then i deleted the db and tried rebuild.. and got same result both times
.

what do i do

The reason you got the same results is because the KMA headers had already been changed the first time.
That is why you need to delete all of the KMA files and the dB files and re-copy the KMA files from the original computer.