Changing Computers, KMH not being recognized

[mrmacjr]

I have upgraded 2 computer in the recent past. On both computers the karaoke music (KMs,KMHs,AVIs,etc) were on a separate large capacity internal hard drive. when I moved hoster to the new computer and installed the larger hard drive in the new computer and rebuilt the database it recognized all the kma's and a few kmh's. It missed about 9,000 kmh's. I tried to rebuild it several times to no avail. I finally had to go in and remove the imported files file from each of the files and reimport the songs. I am getting ready to upgrade my backup laptop and don't want to have to spend 2 or 3 days doing this again. I am sure I am missing something but don't know what it is. I have clicked the kmh button before i rebuild the database but it does no good. All of the computers are dells. I have gone from single cores to dual or quad cores. the new laptop is a dell 15" dual core running 4 threads. I have a seagate 1tb external hd attached. any help would be appreciated

[Lonman]

Something similar happened to me on my Win 7 machine where it took everything on the external and changed every file to 'hidden' on the hard drive - even moving it back to my XP machine, the files were shown as hidden. I had to go to folder options to show hidden files first, then went into each folder where the music was stored & uncheck "hidden files" (select all, right click - properties). Once I got those back to regular status they showed up in the rebuild. May want to check that.

[Roy Dennis]

When you attach the external hard drive on the new computer does it register the external drive as having the same drive letter as it does on your existing system ?

If not try this first to set it the same: http://www.mtu.com/faq-test.php?article=4
It’s the same for Windows 7.


If it does and you have not yet installed Hoster on your new computer try this:

First create a new folder on your C/drive named MTU (unless it already contains this folder) exactly as it shows on your existing system, then copy the complete Hoster folder from your good working system and paste it into the new MTU folder. This should copy all the existing data (except the Instabuttons which are stored in the registry so can’t be copied) ready for installing Hoster on the new computer and will be an exact replica of existing.

Now install Hoster on the new Computer but before starting Hoster up for the first time be sure to have the external hard drive connected, and as stated earlier showing as the same drive path as previouse computer, example if it was drive E on old computer it must register as drive E on this computer before starting Hoster.

Now if this install is the same version of Hoster as you had on the other computer it should just start up as normal, if it is an upgraded install it will first go through and rebuild the singers and songs.mdb’s before opening so if you see the dialog rebuilding first don’t panic and stop it or you will spoil the process, once it is finished it should open as normal and all your file paths will be as before.

[mrmacjr]

thank you I just got the new laptop yesterday. I will try this I really did not look forward to spending all that time reentering the zip and mp3g files.