duplicated songs on backup

[Duners]

Originally Posted by Duners

No i think i have them in 2 different folders, one for english and one for spanish.

If i put everything into 1 folder then can i clear out the doubled up songs and everything on my desktop and start over and redo it?

ok now i restored my computer to yesterday and the duplicates are off there, but i made a copy of my original hard drive and backed it up on another hard drive (both external) and tried to load the rest of the songs in my backup from my new harddrive i backed up from original and it won't recoginze it.
It says F:\My book (E) SC8517-4.kma was not found on hard drive????

please help i want to download all my kma files from my show external harddrive to another external harddrive so i have backup and then load my show laptop songs all to my backup desktop. I have done several downloading of new songs that are not on my backup desktop and want it to be the same as my show laptop.

Can anyone help me out and give me advice or give me step by step instructions, it would be greatly appreciated.

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by Duners

ok now i restored my computer to yesterday and the duplicates are off there, but i made a copy of my original hard drive and backed it up on another hard drive (both external) and tried to load the rest of the songs in my backup from my new harddrive i backed up from original and it won't recoginze it.
It says F:\My book (E) SC8517-4.kma was not found on hard drive????

Are you talking about 2 drives or 3? In your statement above it sounds like 3 different drives.

The question is how did you backup the first drive to the second? If you used the Windows XP Backup then what you created is a compressed image copy of the first drive. And Hoster cannot find the files because they don't exist as individual files. As I said in your other post you will need to "Copy" the files from one drive to the other. You can drag and drop the folder(s) from the first to the second drive and this will copy them. When you build your database don't have both drives listed as the source at the same time. I think this is why you got duplicates.

You said previously you have 2 folders for your songs (English and Spanish). Do you use both in the same shows or do you do separate shows in either English or Spanish? If you want all of the songs listed together then when you rebuild the database in Hoster, list both folders in the top block of the rebuild screen and it will catalog all of the files. I do hope you have not used duplicate BookIDs for the two languages! If you have then this will cause a major problem and you will nee

[Duners]

Its actually 2 drives, but when I copied over the E drive to the F drive (just selected everything, cut and paste), it automatically created a "3rd" drive within the 2nd drive. I know that sounds confusing, but thats where the "E" drive within the "F" drive came from.
I am going to work with it today and let you know how it goes.
All the KMA's should be in one file, so I would have the English and Spanish altogether and not in separate files.
No, I did not create separate bookid's for spanish and english.

Thanks for being so patient with me.

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by Duners

Its actually 2 drives, but when I copied over the E drive to the F drive (just selected everything, cut and paste), it automatically created a "3rd" drive within the 2nd drive. I know that sounds confusing, but thats where the "E" drive within the "F" drive came from. I am going to work with it today and let you know how it goes.

I hope you don't mean cut and paste, but did a "copy" and paste. First look at your E: drive and make sure the files are still there in the My Books folder. I think what you ended up creating was what is called a dynamic drive link.

Originally Posted by Duners

All the KMA's should be in one file, so I would have the English and Spanish altogether and not in separate files.
No, I did not create separate bookid's for spanish and english.
Thanks for being so patient with me.

So we (and you) don't get confused one song (.kma) is a file. Files are grouped together in Folders, So what you are saying is all of your KMA files are in one folder (My Book?)

[Duners]

Yes, I did a copy and paste.

Yes, all the kma files are in "my book" or on the external hard drive.

[ddouglass]

Which external...E: or F Actually should be on both in exact same folder on each. If this is true then everything (except Hoster database) should be ok. If the files don't show up on F: then your copy didn't work.

I just had a light bulb flash!! Is this "My book (E) SC8517-4.kma" the whole file name for one song? The "(E)" being for English and I suppose an "(S)" for Spanish? If this is true how did you go about altering the names of the files? When you import CDG discs they are named with the DiscID-Track by Hoster.

I don't think that should cause a problem but it could be.
If you find the files on the F: drive through Windows Explorer then open Hoster and rebuild the database pointing only to the F: drive. Then try playing one. If it works then you should be able to rebuild the database again with the E: drive only. Then you should be able to remove the F: drive and move it to the other computer. Note that the drive letter may not be the same on the other computer, so when you build the database use the new drive letter.

[Duners]

I have the external hard drive matching to the laptop as well as the desktop now.
I would like to make a "clone" of the external hard drive, what is the best way to do this, so that if my hard drive were to crash, I could use the backup drive.

Let me know if you have any questions.