Problem with Lite and "Undefined" fields - Pilot error

[kod]

Roy,

Just got this e-mail response from my friend:

All my songs are on my external hard drive No I did not have my hard drive plugged in About 50/50 are from disc and downloads No I don't have another back-up but I do have them on my external HD

Hope this helps...

[kod]

Roy,

Just got a phone call from my friend and he told me the in doing the " * " search, all the songs came up but were only showing in the Title column.

The Artist column showed "Undefined"

Based on the way his songs are entered, I suspect that is why!

How do we get Hoster to recognize them when he opens Search Database?

[Roy Dennis]

Originally Posted by kod

Roy,

Just got a phone call from my friend and he told me the in doing the " * " search, all the songs came up but were only showing in the Title column.

The Artist column showed "Undefined"

Based on the way his songs are entered, I suspect that is why!

How do we get Hoster to recognize them when he opens Search Database?

As you say it's the way he entered them originally.
You can no longer do a wild card * search in this version search dialog so if he wants to do his searches with the * he will have to go back to an earlier version witch he can do from the download link I gave you before probably version 5.03 and select the upgrade option even though he is actually downgrading.

What I would suggest though is he clicks on the header bar above Title field and drags it wider, on the Artist field that only shows undefined drag it narrower.
Now it may be he enters too longer string in the search box and causes it not to find what he is searching for. Example: Cracklin' Rose (as listed in my database), if you enter crackling Rose in the search field it finds nothing but enter either cracklin or rose and it will find it.
You have to understand how the search works. same with artist If you search for Neil Diamond it may not find it if the file is named as Diamond, neil. but enter diamond or neil and it will find it whichever way it is listed in the database.

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by kod

Roy,

Just got a phone call from my friend and he told me the in doing the " * " search, all the songs came up but were only showing in the Title column.

The Artist column showed "Undefined"

Based on the way his songs are entered, I suspect that is why!

How do we get Hoster to recognize them when he opens Search Database?

It sounds like he used the easy import for his files on the hard drive which would mean all of the information went into the title block and leaves the rest of them undefined.

[Roy Dennis]

Originally Posted by kod

Dale,

He did an uninstall and then downloaded Hoster Lite again and now he cannot get Hoster to work at all.

He has the desktop icon but that is all. It appears as if he didn't get it downloaded right.

I turned in a ticket to MTU this afternoon and got an acknowledge response on the ticket.

Now it's wait and see...

If he went back to an older version he would have to delete his songs.mdb or Hoster wont open then rebuild the database after, I did mention this in a private message to you.

[kod]

Roy,

Thanks to your help, my friend has got his Hoster Lite back up and running.

He had about 500 (out of 9,100) songs still show up as "undefined" but he is in the process of manually correcting this.

He knows now to "always" have his external Hard Drive hooked up for any future downloads. That, was the root of his problem...

Thanks again for your help!

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by kod

Roy,

Just got this e-mail response from my friend:



Hope this helps...

First key factor is the hard drive needs to be plugged in if it is going to Rebuild the database from that drive.
Also can we find out why he cannot post in here? Did he register to join the forums and did he get a confirmation from MTU?

[kod]

Dale,

He has never registered for the forum. Up to now I have been able to resolve any problems he had and he didn't see any need to register.

I was there last night and the hard drive was plugged in when we did a Rebuild...