Hard Drive Crash

[wired2up]

I had to replace my hard drive on my laptop and after reinstalling holster I went to my external drive where all my kma's are stored and holster does not recognise them, it's been so long since I had to reload any music I can't seem to get them to come up, Thanks anyone

[mindonstrike]

Did you rebuild the database?

[wired2up]

I'm not quit sure what to do to rebuild database, any explanations Thanks Bill.
I think I still have the old database on my flash drive, will that work?

[billyo]

Originally Posted by wired2up

I'm not quit sure what to do to rebuild database, any explanations Thanks Bill.
I think I still have the old database on my flash drive, will that work?

open hoster, click on tools, click on build song database, a box wil open up click on select folder, click on your ext. drive where you have your kma files are, highlight it, delete it, click on select again, click the same drive , then click on rebuild song database..

[wired2up]

I'm stilltrying to get Hoster to recognize the 50,000 songs on my external, I found my old database and copied it to Hoster database and a list comes up on the play menue but when I try to add to play list a screen pops up and says cannot locate file on drive F so I open drive F and then open the Karaoke folder and check to see if the KMA's are still in the DK folder and they show up, must still be doing something wrong. Thanks Bill

[billyo]

Originally Posted by wired2up

I'm stilltrying to get Hoster to recognize the 50,000 songs on my external, I found my old database and copied it to Hoster database and a list comes up on the play menue but when I try to add to play list a screen pops up and says cannot locate file on drive F so I open drive F and then open the Karaoke folder and check to see if the KMA's are still in the DK folder and they show up, must still be doing something wrong. Thanks Bill

you need to update your database , follow the instructions on post #4

[ddouglass]

You have to list each folder you have KMA files in for the Rebuild database to work. It does not check sub-folders.
Are you sure the drive letter is still F: external drives sometimes will have the letter changed by Windows.

[wired2up]

Thanks, but I'm still not sure about rebuilding the database, I tried the first comment with no success, I must be doing something wrong! I sure would appreciate some more advise about this. Thanks Bill

[ddouglass]

Open the Song Database under the Tools. Select Rebuild. Then in the rebuild dialoge box top section make sure that all the folders where you have KMA files are listed. If any aren't listed then add them by clicking on Add folder. Any listed locations that you don't have files in highlight them and click on the Remove Folder button.
When you have finished and have the list right, then click on the Build database button at the bottom.

[wired2up]

Sure appreciate all the help from you guys, I paniced and thought I would have to reload it all but you saved me Thanks again Bill