Restoring Database

[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.