External Drive Letter Change and Playlist issues

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by Mitd9922

I plug and unplug at every show 4 times a week and the drive letter never changes. All music is available every time.

But now, I just upgraded to the newest version of Hoster and now my drive is not recognized. After doing a system restore back to version 3317 I still cannot access my drive. Any help?

Is this Vista? You haven't said whether it is Vista or XP. If it is Vista have you done all of the required changes to the computer from this page?
http://www.mtu.com/upgrades/hoster/v...de-hoster4.htm
If it is XP make sure you have dones these items:
http://www.mtu.com/upgrades/hoster/xp-changes.htm

[Mitd9922]

Originally Posted by ddouglass

Is this Vista? You haven't said whether it is Vista or XP. If it is Vista have you done all of the required changes to the computer from this page?
http://www.mtu.com/upgrades/hoster/v...de-hoster4.htm
If it is XP make sure you have dones these items:
http://www.mtu.com/upgrades/hoster/xp-changes.htm

This is an XP machine with all the original things that (3.314)? previous versions had turned off or on. It ran perfectly before the upgrade but I think it may have backed up files to my Hard drive and filled it up.

Does the KMA file listed on the drive contain the music and lyrics? Or is this two different files combined by Hoster? This is an essspecially important part of my question because the file recovery I'm running as I type (on different CPU ) will take too long to get all the duplicated files off my old drive thus making me miss a gig tonight. If I can just load one copy onto my new drive I'll make the show!!Help!!

[Roy Dennis]

Originally Posted by Mitd9922

Does the KMA file listed on the drive contain the music and lyrics? Or is this two different files combined by Hoster? !!

A .kma file is a single file containing both music & Lyrics.

Did you try resetting the drive letter as in my previous post, it is near enough the same procedure for XP.

[Mitd9922]

So if I have at least one copy on my new drive of each file I'm good to go to work tonight?

One more critcal ?. Can I stop transfering files from one drive to the new one while running and still have the new files on the new drive?
Im Using Recovermyfiles.com software

[Roy Dennis]

Originally Posted by Mitd9922

So if I have at least one copy on my new drive of each file I'm good to go to work tonight?

Yes.

Originally Posted by Mitd9922

One more critcal ?. Can I stop transfering files from one drive to the new one while running and still have the new files on the new drive?
Im Using Recovermyfiles.com software

As I am not familiar with your recovery software, I don't know.

Why do you need a recovery program ?
If you can see the files why can't you just copy from one drive to the other ?

That way you can stop copying.

[Mitd9922]

Thanks for the response. My hard drive was messed up after the upgrade to newest version of Hoster and would'nt open anything. I got messages that said " You need to format this drive..." I did'nt want to do that and the only way I could get the files out to a new HD was to do a recovery.

I think the drive was full and was about to take a s##t on me anyway.

I am doing a restore back to the old version of Hoster I was using because it just shut down while palying a test song. I'll let ya know how that works out.

[billyo]

Originally Posted by Mitd9922

Thanks for the response. My hard drive was messed up after the upgrade to newest version of Hoster and would'nt open anything. I got messages that said " You need to format this drive..." I did'nt want to do that and the only way I could get the files out to a new HD was to do a recovery.

I think the drive was full and was about to take a s##t on me anyway.

if you are going to do a system restore i think you have to have at least 15 gb left on the hhd. or it wont do it..if thats what i think youre going to do..

[Mitd9922]

Originally Posted by Roy Dennis

A .kma file is a single file containing both music & Lyrics.

Did you try resetting the drive letter as in my previous post, it is near enough the same procedure for XP.

Yes, the drive letter is now the same as I was using with the old drive.
XP system

[Roy Dennis]

if you open search tab is Title and Atist highlighted ?. if so enter * in the search box and see if any songs come up.
If not the only thing I can think of is to do a rebuild songs data base checking first that you point it to your new drive.

[Mitd9922]

Originally Posted by Roy Dennis

if you open search tab is Title and Atist highlighted ?. if so enter * in the search box and see if any songs come up.
If not the only thing I can think of is to do a rebuild songs data base checking first that you point it to your new drive.

I typed * with title and artist highlighted in (3321) not (4006) and a handfull of songs turned up. None of them will play but they do show up. I used to just put in artist or song and anything that had any letters I would type in came fine.

I get a e:/"sc**** not found

[Roy Dennis]

when you enter a * it should list everything.
I am afraid I am out of ideas now, all I can say is run the rebuild data base as in my previous post.
Afraid I wont be able to reply any more as it's 1. oclock in the morning here in Uk and i'm of toi bed.

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by Mitd9922

I typed * with title and artist highlighted in (3321) not (4006) and a handfull of songs turned up. None of them will play but they do show up. I used to just put in artist or song and anything that had any letters I would type in came fine.

I get a e:/"sc**** not found

The * did not work before 4.00.