Only prints TITLE

[Ernie]

Roy, I moved the SongBook.rtf file to another location. I then opened Create Song Books. The View Song Book Button was not highlighted like the other three. I then ticked the Create button and then the View Songbook button became highlighted. I ticked it open and the songbook is by Artist. I tried by title and it still comes up by Artist, which is all I\'m interested in. Will the SongBook.rtf come back if I do a BUILD DATABASE? Do I even need SongBook.rtf?.....All I can say is you fixed it. What a great call. Thank you so much Roy!!

Ernie

[Roy Dennis]

Well it seems its not overwriting the original Songbook.rtf file.

This normally happens if you have the songbook file open in Word or some other program but then you should get a window pop up asking you to close the other program as soon as you press create.

The songbook.rtf file has nothing to do with rebuilding database, it writes a new one if one does not already exist or overwrites each time you press the create button. It can not overwrite if it is in use by another program.

So if you did not already have it open then something else is wrong.

I suppose if you wanted a by Title version now you would have to delete it again before creating a new one.

[Roy Dennis]

another thing that comes to mind is, if the Songbook.rtf file is showing as Read only.

If you right click the file and select properties, the attributes Tick boxes at the bottom should be showing clear, if not untick them and Apply, then see if you can change from artist to title and back again.

[Ernie]

Roy, I went to Attributes and both boxes were unticked. I also looked at my new SongBook.rtf and it is 1,344kb. I then checked the original SongBook.rtf that I had moved and it had 5,208kb. Why the difference??? Is the new one missing songs?

Thanks,
Ernie

[Roy Dennis]

After it creates the new songbook before opening it a window normally pops up stating how many songs.


I just checked the properties of my own and it shows 1.78 MB that is 200 pages 24000 songs.

So I can’t say other than that.

[Ernie]

Roy, Everything looks good. Thank you Sir

Ernie

[Roy Dennis]

Closing this thread now.