Here I go again...

[gators66]

Took it upon myself to purchase an external hard drive. WHAT AN IDIOT!!!

Printed out the mtu instruction for moving kma files from one hard drive to another and off I went. Everything seemed WAY too easy because I had no problems at all. However, after taking my new external hard drive and hooking it up to second laptop w/hoster could not get hoster to work correctly. The newly transferred songs show up in the k-oke files but I cannot look them up in search mode. The only way to play them is to highlight one and not know the title until it starts playing. H E L P !!!

I also think I may have made another mistake....... When I now run my primary laptop w/hoster it doesnt recognize the kma files unless the external drive is plugged in. Number 1 is that how its supposed to be and 2.. Can I delete the old kma files on hoster and just use the ones on the external hard drive. THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[billyo]

Originally Posted by gators66

you're supposed to rebuild your song database..

[Lonman]

Originally Posted by gators66

I also think I may have made another mistake....... When I now run my primary laptop w/hoster it doesnt recognize the kma files unless the external drive is plugged in. Number 1 is that how its supposed to be and

Is the external hard drive the drive you use on your laptop or do you use an internal drive on the laptop. If you always used an external on the laptop, yes the drive has to be plugged in in order for Hoster to recognize them. Then make sure that Hoster is pointed to the external & rebuild your database.

2.. Can I delete the old kma files on hoster and just use the ones on the external hard drive. THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As long as those (the ones on your laptop) aren't the ones you use primarlily, then you can delete the old files.
Do you HAVE to delete them for space issues, or ??? Always nice to have a backup of your files handy.

[gators66]

Before my external drive fiasco I used my internal drive on my primary hoster laptop. After moving kma files from internal drive to external I can no longer use the internal files. They are listed in the K-OKE file on hoster but hoster no longer recognizes them.

Now, after taking the external drive and plugging it into my backup hoster laptop with no songs (didnt put any on this laptop) it automatically puts the transferred songs in the k-oke file. However, I cannot search for songs by title, disc, etc. The only way to find out the song name is to highlight any one song and play it.

[RIKKI TIKKI]

Originally Posted by gators66

Before my external drive fiasco I used my internal drive on my primary hoster laptop. After moving kma files from internal drive to external I can no longer use the internal files. They are listed in the K-OKE file on hoster but hoster no longer recognizes them.

Now, after taking the external drive and plugging it into my backup hoster laptop with no songs (didnt put any on this laptop) it automatically puts the transferred songs in the k-oke file. However, I cannot search for songs by title, disc, etc. The only way to find out the song name is to highlight any one song and play it.

Gators66

When you moved your kma files to an external drive was it because you lacked storage space on c:drive? (as per Lonman's request). If you were not out of space, maybe just copying the kma files to a second drive, would have been a better move, so you would have established a backup of all your karaoke kma's.

I don't know which external drive you purchased, but with the prices coming down on all sizes, it would behoove you to buy a second or even a third, for backing up your kma files for protective purposes, and peace of mind.

Every time you move the hard drive (external) from one computer to the other, you have to rebuild the database to let Hoster in that computer know where to look for your stored kma files. Different usb ports will change the drive letter that the computer assigns. So look in MY Computer, to see which drive letter, in case it is different, that the computer assigned to your external drive.

When you add to one hard drive, you'll probably want to make sure all the drives are synchronized, or are the same, so what I have been using is a software program called File Synchronizer 4.0.4 by Latshaw Systems that one of the other KJ's on this forum reccomended. It copies your new additions or changes from one folder to another, or from one drive to another.

Backup! Backup! Backup!

Good Luck!

Rick
Rikki Tikki Karaoke

[ddouglass]

Rebuild the database and change the location in the rebuild screen to the internal drive kma file location for the primary laptop. And rebuild the database on the backup, changing the location for it to the external drive location where your KMA files are located.

[Lonman]

Originally Posted by gators66

Before my external drive fiasco I used my internal drive on my primary hoster laptop. After moving kma files from internal drive to external I can no longer use the internal files. They are listed in the K-OKE file on hoster but hoster no longer recognizes them.

It's because you moved them, not just copied them. Point Hoster at the external drive & rebuild the database. Hoster isn't recognizing them on the internal because they aren't there anymore. The database itself is still built for that drive. Rebuild the database with the external drive.

[gators66]

Thanks for all your help everyone, I know you all must grow tired of my incessant nagging. I think I got everything figured out. I'm in the final stages of rebuilding database in primary laptop and the second laptop works fine. You know, when I bought Hoster a while back I never realized how detailed and intricate it was. My how things change.... Thanks again