Hoster 5.09 Has been released May 28, 2013

[Roy Dennis]

Originally Posted by uhuhnottelling

i wanted to completely removed an old database from 1 laptop and replace it with another. I removed all files & folders, ran rebuild db so it reported 0 songs. then added folders 1 by 1.
i'm having 2 issues currently:
1. even tho' there were no songs left in the db, i was only able to import 30 of 300 songs with the claim that there are 270 dupes. why would this happen if there were no songs left in the db? how can i wipe out any memory of there ever having been a db?
2. the merge dupes button freezes hoster

Item 1)
If these are kmh types, each of the folders containing these types has a file named "ImportedFiles.txt" this contains a list of all your imported files in that folder. If you delete this file I'm not sure if rebuilding the database creates this file again.
You may want to test on a folder with the least files in to try it first. One way to do this, from the Build database dialog use the Exclude folder button to remove those songs from the database.

Then open the folder in explorer and rename the "ImportedFiles.txt" to "Backup-ImportedFiles.txt" just in case you need to replace it.
Now from Hosters rebuild dialog, go back in to the Excluded folders list, select the folder and choose "Remove folder from list".
Now go back to the rebuild database dialog, use the add folder button and brows to the folder and add it to the list, you should see it rebuilding just that folder into the database and when completed tell you how many songs from that folder added to the database.
Then using explorer look in the folder and see if it rebuilt that .txt file.
If yes then that should answer to your question, so you would then have to remove that file from each folder.
Take note if it doesn't replace it you will have problems when using the Index Song files dialog, ticking the hide imported tracks won't work.

Item 2) I don't know but did you leave it for a while to see if it started responding again ?