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Old October 7th, 2007, 08:49 PM
Skybird74 Skybird74 is offline
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Changing Vista Security solves problems

Found the Answer to solve the problem with Vista install.
I did a search of HELP for another problem that suggested turning off security in the User Accounts. I fully expected then to have to start over to make everything work.

To my AMAZEMENT, after changng User Accounts I simply restarted Vista. Then when I clicked on Hoster to simply open the program, it immediately starting Re-building the database. Having already done that yesterday & all songs played fine, I couldn't imagine why it was doing that. When it finished, Hoster finished opening up like normal. I couldn't see any difference, so I turned it off and looked in the ....\programfiles\Hoster "folder" and LO AND BEHOLD, there were ALL the missing files that were not there before, including the "BuildSongsDBLog,txt" that did not exist before.

I copied a .HST file from my old laptop and was also DELIGHTED that Hoster had no trouble finding the song to play from the Playlist that was created on my old laptop.

THANK YOU MTU & EVERYONE FOR YOUR HELP!
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Old October 7th, 2007, 10:36 PM
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This is what I was trying to tell you. Those files were there all along but Vista was hiding them. Even if you log in with administrator privileges Vista doesn't allow full rights. Turning the UNC security off is one way of "fixing" it. The other is to change the security settings for the folder (and files within) to allow Hoster or your account to work as administrator in that folder. The second is the most secure and the first is the easiest.
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Old October 7th, 2007, 11:54 PM
Skybird Skybird is offline
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I posted earlier that I had already followed your instructions and changed the security settings in each folder, but nothing changed, until I turned off UAC. I don't believe Vista finished the first time, otherwise why did it re-build the database again, all by itself, just by turning on Hoster! Anyway, it's working now!
Thanks for your help.
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Old October 8th, 2007, 09:05 PM
mindonstrike mindonstrike is offline
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I don't believe Vista finished the first time, otherwise why did it re-build the database again, all by itself, just by turning on Hoster! Anyway, it's working now!
Thanks for your help.
The only reason Hoster will automaticly start a database build at startup is if it cannot find song.mdb. Chances are when you turned off the security thing, Vista just started pointing programs to the locations where they were originally supposed to write data but did not move the existing datafiles to those locations, so when you opened Hoster it looked for the database in a new location where it didn't exist. If you have other programs that suddenly can't find their data, you'll know where to look.

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