lost new release songbook

[rlong_3712]

Hi all! I haven't had any issues with Hoster until recently. I had printed my notebooks with over 5600 songs and then purchased 50 CD's more of CDG's. I spent the necessary time to load them into my laptop and lo and behold the new release counter didn't match the number of songs I entered. I checked and somehow 3 CD's were in the old book, while everything else was in the new releases. Then I thought, okay, so I'll erase those 3 CD's and enter them again. Well, as some of you have already guessed, it erased my new release counter all together. Then I deleted all 50 CD's and tried to do it again. No good. I can't seem to get my new music on the new release count. Any help out there before I take a shot gun to the laptop? Sorry venting. Very frustrating here.

Thanks all.
Shelly Long

[ddouglass]

Did you try rebuilding the database after deleting them but before you re-import. That should set them back as new.

[mindonstrike]

If you move the new KMA's to another folder then rebuild the database with just the main song folder then use the Merge function to re-add those new KMA's, You should be able to print them out as a new release.
At least the manual indicates this will work.

Sam

[rlong_3712]

Okay, call me a chicken, but will the rebuild change the numbering because I've already printed 12 notebooks and would really hate to waste the money, time, ink, etc to do it all over again?

Thanks everybody. I'm usually pretty PC literate but this time Hoster has me beat. Have another question...backed up my hardrive using ghost. Any idea how this works? Unfamiliar with this software, and afraid that in a show Ill be lost. I mean it took 2 days just to back up the laptop drive which needless to say hubby dear demands on uploading every new song out there to the point that everything is super slow, only about 13.5 GB left on the drive and I'm not liking it at all.

The system I have is:

Gateway Mobile Power House
AMD Turion 64 Mobile Technology
1 GB memory
ATI Radeon Xpress 200 M Graphics
100 GB Hard drive (nearly full and in a state of panic)
Hoster 3.303 (have submitted 2 tickets to get the upgrade so far no deal?!!!)

[rlong_3712]

Okay, call me a chicken, but will the rebuild change the numbering because I've already printed 12 notebooks and would really hate to waste the money, time, ink, etc to do it all over again?

Thanks everybody. I'm usually pretty PC literate but this time Hoster has me beat. Have another question...backed up my hardrive using ghost. Any idea how this works? Unfamiliar with this software, and afraid that in a show Ill be lost. I mean it took 2 days just to back up the laptop drive which needless to say hubby dear demands on uploading every new song out there to the point that everything is super slow, only about 13.5 GB left on the drive and I'm not liking it at all.

The system I have is:

Gateway Mobile Power House
AMD Turion 64 Mobile Technology
1 GB memory
ATI Radeon Xpress 200 M Graphics
100 GB Hard drive (nearly full and in a state of panic)
Hoster 3.303 (have submitted 2 tickets to get the upgrade so far no deal?!!!)

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by rlong_3712

Okay, call me a chicken, but will the rebuild change the numbering because I've already printed 12 notebooks and would really hate to waste the money, time, ink, etc to do it all over again?

This shouldn't mess up your numbering unless you left unused BookIDs any where in the list. Since you have already imported all the new discs then there should be no conflict. Follow Sam's advice.

[quote=rlong_3712;63169]Thanks everybody. I'm usually pretty PC literate but this time Hoster has me beat. Have another question...backed up my hardrive using ghost. Any idea how this works? Unfamiliar with this software, and afraid that in a show Ill be lost. I mean it took 2 days just to back up the laptop drive which needless to say hubby dear demands on uploading every new song out there to the point that everything is super slow, only about 13.5 GB left on the drive and I'm not liking it at all./quote]
Ghost creates a compressed image file of your hard disk, and stores it on another harddrive or on CD/DVD media. And yes 86.5 GB will take a long time to back up. You didn't create that image on the same hard drive did you?
Your best bet would be to purchase an external hard drive of at least 200 GB and move all your KMA files to that drive, thus freeing up a lot of space on your C: Drive. The C: drive should really never get below 50% free space for optimal operation. After you get the song files to the external then you can defragment the internal drive and speed up your laptop tremendously.
A side benefit to this is that if the laptop crashes then all you have to do is substitute another computer, install Hoster and you are back in business.

Originally Posted by rlong_3712

Hoster 3.303 (have submitted 2 tickets to get the upgrade so far no deal?!!!)

Have you checked to see what the status of those tickets are? It could be they answered you and you didn't receive the emails for various reasons.

[rlong_3712]

really stinks. I've checked and checked and checked. Up until now been pretty happy with MTU. Don't know why it would take them so long to respond?!!! Don't get it. Really disappointed in them for that. Before now never a problem, quick response and all...now, don't understand. We've spent some major bucks for people who don't have $. :(

[rlong_3712]

Besides the aggravation of rebuilding the database, which so far seems to be pretty easy... Bought a new hard drive with 500 GB on it, and for the most part has been good, except for a few error messages saying that the drive doesn't exist which is making me really really nervous.

What do most of you do to have a back up in case of a crash in the middle of a show?? Any help appreciated...

[rlong_3712]

sorry it shows that I'm rattled. No, I did the back up on an external HD. Not really sure what I'll do if I ever need it. Thinking of making a copy of all music on both external HD. Not real confident on how that works though.