Yesterday 14,980 songs in Hoster songs...Today 3,173.

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Folks, and Karen especially, we too are paranoid!

This has NEVER happened before in my 40 years in business.

We are hot... Hot... HOT and heavy on Hoster 3.321 to do our very best to insure nothing that Vista is doing will affect Hoster again.

We discovered yesterday that:

IF... you have the Vista User Access Control (UAC) DISABLED, you are 95% safe. This was REQUIRED to install Hoster on Vista, so at one time every Hoster/Vista user did this.

IF... you RE-ENABLED the UAC, You're dead!!!!!!!!!! Sometime shortly after you do this, IT APPEARS TO US that Vista will move all your KMA files, Playlists and songs database to this folder:
C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\Micro Technology Unlimited\Hoster\Songs (or \Databases or \Playlists).

This "VirtualStore" stuff is what appears to be messing everyone up. Your files were under \Hoster\Songs, now they're not. Big PANIC! No warnings, no indication, and buried so deep no one would ever find them.

If you want to see the instructions we will display when (during installation of 3.321) we find 1) Vista OS, and 2) Hoster already installed, read this page.


What about 2000/XP? Basically, the problem in 3.318 & 3.319 that set up for Widows to delete massive numbers of files in no time has been stripped out of 3.320.

DO NOT RUN 3.318 or 3.319!
We will send out an email notice of this once we have 3.321 released (expected this week) because 3.320 can still not show your existing Songs Database, making it APPEAR that your KMA files are again gone. If you simply run Tools menu > Build Songs Database command it will build the songs.mdb in the correct new folder. Version 3.321 will fix this also.

Are we wrong to not warn others NOW? I have put an Announcement in this Hoster Help forum as a warning, and with the link to the Hoster Upgrades page to get the free download of 3.320 to install. I'll modify this to 3.321 as soon as we release.

If you are under 2000/XP, the cause triggering Windows to delete your files is gone in 3.320. SAFE!

If you are under Vista, DO NOT DISABLE your UAC. You're in trouble if you do!