Restoring Database

[MackieRocks]

I noticed that when I plug my external harddrive to my backup laptop, all the songs are there. Should I copy the songs database (songs.mdb) from my backup machine to my primary? Will that fix my problem? H-E-L-P!!!!

[Roy Dennis]

Originally Posted by MackieRocks

Should I copy the songs database (songs.mdb) from my backup machine to my primary? Will that fix my problem? H-E-L-P!!!!

That will only work if you are using the same hard drive to run Hoster and it has the same drive volume letter when plugged in to each computer.
The other problem with that is unless your index folders list is complete you will have this problem every time you rebuild.

It seems you ask questions but don't properly answer them

1. Did you have the hard drive attached when you first rebuilt the database ?

2. Have you checked the list of folders are all present in the Indexed folders list that is accessed from the Tools/Songs Database/Build Database dialog ?
I attach a sample screen shot of what you should see, as yours are on an external drive your drive letter will not be C:\ as in the screen shot but whatever your external drive is.
If your list is not showing the files you want then use the Add Folders button to brows to the folder, open the folders so you can see all the files there then select.

When you build the database it builds it from the files in this list, if the files are on an external drive then it must be attached throughout this process.

3. Are you having problems getting the folders in the list ?

[MackieRocks]

Sorry about the confusion, Roy. I've got 10 things going on at the same time. Yes. The external harddrive was attached during the rebuild process. I selected all the folders shown in the list. After the build, I double-checked the results by calling up a song from MY singers list and it shows status 'Ready', Dur '0' and no name in the song name field. I also noticed that the songs that are dropping are random numbers. By that I mean a complete CD+G that was loaded and working in the past, now has 1, 2 or sometimes 3 songs missing from the list. I am really confused. Did I fully confuse you?

[Roy Dennis]

Try this first: open your C:/MTU/Hoster folder, find the file singers.mdb, copy it and paste the copy somewhere safe, your desk top will do just as a backup.
Then click the singers button on the main Hoster screen and press the Refresh DB button. Close Hoster, restart Hoster, let us know if it's still the same.

If no different open your edit dialog and enter * wild card in the find box with the karaoke button highlighted, does it fill the results window with all your music files ?

If it does, do both the Title and Artist fields show correct or is one blank or unknown ?
Also check the Book Id of a song and see if it matches the book id in your singers list.

Before you originally rebuilt this database were all the songs on this same 1TB drive or were they on the C:/ drive or a different drive ?

[MackieRocks]

By refreshing the database, the songs that had no link dropped off the singers list. It is random. I lost maybe 2 or 3 songs off a particular CD+G and some songs have re-numbered and now don’t match my books (which I just replaced)! The randomness of it all is what I don’t understand. All of my songs are on a 1Tb external and everything was running smoothly until I indexed 13 songs and re-built the database. It's got to be something I'm doing.chemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

[Roy Dennis]

You state in your first post "All my KMA files are on a 1Tb external hard drive"
Are you sure there are no kma files in your C:/MTU/KMA files folder or any other folder on your C:/ drive ?

Please check this properly, if you click the windows start button and enter.kma in the search box and see if it finds any on your C:/Drive.

I'm wondering if when you rebuilt the database it mixed files from your C:/drive with files on your external that were duplicates causing it to renumber disc id's.

Also check again in the list of folders in the build database dialog that there are no files listed in the C:/ drive, especially C:/MTU/KMA files.
If it is use the Exclude folders button to remove them then rebuild the database.