trouble with hoster and laptop

[George]

Dolly,

Probably draw another blank, but go to the folder where your KMA files are stored and right click on one of them.

What does it tell you the size of the KMA track is? Average should be around 3 to 4 Mg (approx) at 128 compression..

Also make for sure that in the ATTRIBUTES at the bottom of the page READ ONLY and HIDDEN are UNCHECKED.

[George]

Originally Posted by George

Dolly,

Probably draw another blank, but go to the folder where your KMA files are stored and right click on one of them.

What does it tell you the size of the KMA track is? Average should be around 3 to 4 Mg (approx) at 128 compression..

Also make for sure that in the ATTRIBUTES at the bottom of the page READ ONLY and HIDDEN are UNCHECKED.

Well?

[dhkluesner@clas]

Ok, kma files are mostly 3-4 mb with about 30% more than that. In the attributes section there is no read only or other, just kma info.

For assurance purposes, I went through mtu's disable features. The only one I couldn't figure out on vista was how to disable show windows content features. Everything else was right on target.

Windows is update and has been since the beginning. I run an update daily.

I want to thank all of you for your help. I know that me and my problem are very frustrating.

[George]

Originally Posted by dhkluesner@clas

Ok, kma files are mostly 3-4 mb with about 30% more than that. In the attributes section there is no read only or other, just kma info.

For assurance purposes, I went through mtu's disable features. The only one I couldn't figure out on vista was how to disable show windows content features. Everything else was right on target.

Windows is update and has been since the beginning. I run an update daily.

I want to thank all of you for your help. I know that me and my problem are very frustrating.

That answers two of the three questions.

1-You can access the folder where the KMA files are stored, so Vista has not made it a hidden folder and denied you and Hoster access.

2-The files are within normal range and probably aren't corrupted.

3-I don't use Vista and didn't realize they had changed the attributes info.

Regarding your updates, do you use EXPRESS or CUSTOM install? If you've been using EXPRESS, try doing a CUSTOM install, as Dale made reference to early on. There are some updates that companies software requires, that Microsoft doesn't deem important, that you will get with CUSTOM install if you take everything. I'm bringing it back up because it's important, and in all the hassle you could have easily missed it.

[George]

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[dhkluesner@clas]

All updates custom and express are down loaded except an office 2007 that I don't have on my computer.

I am going to acer to see if there are any drivers that I need to download. Maybe I something missing there.

[mindonstrike]

Originally Posted by George

3-I don't use Vista and didn't realize they had changed the attributes info

Normally they haven't. It looks like Vista has added info related to security and permissions but all the normal info is there as well. If that attribute info is not visible it might indicate something related to permissions, however the fact that Hoster can read the file when building the database but not when playing the song makes me question if that's the problem. (unless playing the file is considered "executing", since that's a selection in the security details.)

dhkluesner@clas, since you can play video but not kma it might be worth your while to open the properties on each and compare the security details to see how/if they are different.

Sam

[hwheeler43]

I don't know about everyone else, but I am going to trash Vista. I have two Toshiba laptops and the Windows XP machine with 1 gb of memory will let me multi task while doing a show and never has an audio dropout or anything. The Vista machine with 1.5 gb of memory has audio dropouts and I have disabled all the services possible. I sincerely hope that you can get your machine to work, but it really seems to be a Vista issue.

[George]

Originally Posted by hwheeler43

...but it really seems to be a Vista issue.

True, but it's not just Vista alone. I use XP Home. I never got Vista, and downloaded Internet Explorer 7. I immediately had issues, trashed it after a lot of frustration, and reinstalled IE 6, and everything went back to normal.

I'm assuming (bad word) IE 7 is bundled with the Vista package, so who knows which is causing what

Others have reported installing IE 7 with no problems, just as some have done well with Vista. I do know my state has not gone for Vista and has also directed all their agency computer support staff not to install IE7.