I think I lost Everything!!!!

[madjim- with the Lord]

When you plug the external drive into your computer or your laptop through a USB port, it should see the drive and give it a letter like "E" or "F". Is this happening?

Hoster should be installed on your "C" drive. Is this the case?

Jim

[T and J Karaoke]

Yes to both. Hoster is installed on my C: Drive but I save all my Kma's onto my external drive which is my F: Drive. It would be better to talk on the phone I am messageing you on Myspace with my number ok.

[madjim- with the Lord]

Originally Posted by T and J Karaoke

Yes to both. Hoster is installed on my C: Drive but I save all my Kma's onto my external drive which is my F: Drive. It would be better to talk on the phone I am messageing you on Myspace with my number ok.

Okay

Jim

[madjim- with the Lord]

Jennifer has 3.321 on her home machine running XP.
She has 3.316 on her laptop running Vista.
She has her KMA files in a folder on an external drive.
She was deleting KMA file on her home machine (XP) through Hoster using the Edit Songs feature when this problem occoured.
I got her to custom update her version of XP.
She said she ran scandisc on the external hard drive and it did not find any bad sectors.
She has a show tonight and is going to use her laptop. She will give an update of the problem afterwards.
I don't run Vista so I can't hellp her in that department.
She is not very computer literate so keep all explaination and questions as simple as possible.

Thanks Everybody!

Jim

[Beavis]

did you search the hard drive for kma's using search feature in windows??

[T and J Karaoke]

Beavis to answer your question. Yes I did and I only found 2437 files when I originally had 18694 files.

Now what happened last night! Everything worked as normal. All my Karaoke was there. How it was there I don't know????? All my songs were there but when I looked at the external hard drive it still showed only 2437 files. It did crash on me last night cause I added a song on that was not in my books and I had to restart. But once I did, it was back to normal. I am so scared to rebuild my database in fear that I am going to loose all my work. Everything that I loaded! The thing that puzzles me is where in the heck is hoster getting these files from if not from my C: drive and not from my F: external? I am so comfused it isn't even funny!

Thank you to all who is trying to help!

[hwheeler43]

This may be off base but you might want to go to the Tools menu and select Build Songs Database on the machine where you can see your files. This should give you a clue as to which folders your songs are under. You can then copy them back to a folder on your external for backup purposes.

[marklwood]

Originally Posted by T and J Karaoke

Beavis to answer your question. Yes I did and I only found 2437 files when I originally had 18694 files.

The thing that puzzles me is where in the heck is hoster getting these files from if not from my C: drive and not from my F: external? I am so comfused it isn't even funny!

Thank you to all who is trying to help!

Start button.....Search......all files and folders......all drives.......*.kma....should get 18964 results, and list where they are all at. Go to the folder that you didn't know about. Select all and move to where you want them. ie. F:\Songs. On a USB drive this should only take abaout a day and a half. Then rebuild your database selecting ONLY that folder. Remove the other entries in the build database list.

Just kidding, it will take some time though.

[madjim- with the Lord]

Originally Posted by T and J Karaoke

Everything worked as normal.

This is good news! it means the KMA files have not been deleted, you just have to figure out where they are and put them all in one folder as Dale suggested. Keep working on it. Once you find your KMA's and put them in the same folder, select this folder in the Build Database window and rebuild (not merge) the database.

Jim