Trouble Creating/Viewing/Printing Songbook

[mindonstrike]

Originally Posted by tonysjungle

I have followed the directions (over and over) and have attempted to read through all of the threads on here...

My problem is that when I attempt to view the songbook and print it, I am not getting anything!

I have about 900 songs in my database so far (takes so long to download cd's one by one). I have gone to "Tools"..."Build Songs Database" and let that run. The source folder is the default: C:\Program Files\Micro Technology Unlimited\Hoster\Songs and the Destination Folder is the default "Hoster\Databases\"

Then, when I go to "SongBook" and pick my fields...Click on "create" it says "New Song Book Created with 884 entries"

I then go to "Select Viewer" and go under "Browse" and point to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office11\Winword.exe and click "OK"

Then go to "View Song Book" and Microsoft Word opens up giving me an error message "The directory name is not valid. (C:\Program Files\...SongBook.rtf)" and when I click OK, Word opens...but the page is blank.

Ughhh....Have done this several times. Have tried wordpad instead and no luck.....

This is really strange. I'm getting the same sort of thing on my vista machine.

I created a songbook and tried to open in Wordpad (the default viewer) and I got the same error msg as you. I then selected Winword as my viewer using pretty much the same path as you. This time it opened no problem. I closed Word and went to the Hoster folder where it should be and I could not find it.
When I did a search for it, I got shortcuts to both the songbook folder and songbook file but when I click either of them it says it can't find the file.
The search function said the folder and file were in an appdata folder (which I've been discovering is more of the vista hidden folder security crap), when I hover my mouse over the shortcuts I get the yellow balloon message saying it's located in the Hoster folder where it's supposed to be.
I can find it in the start/recent items folder but again when I click on it, it can't find the file (Vista hid it so well that even Vista can't find it).

The only way I can open it again is to manually open Word and find the file in Words recent doc list.

I'll check this out on my XP machines tomorrow (later today), but I 'm guessing that 99% of this is due to Vista's overbearing security - If anyone knows how to turn it off I'd appreciate it.

Sam

[ddouglass]

I am not positive Sam as I don't have a Vista machine to check this out on but I do remember during testing that this showed up. It is a security setting and it is Vista saying, this file was created by this program so only it is allowed to access it. I'll do some research today and see if I can find a way to turn that off.