Hoster Book ID Changed

[TheMusicGeek]

Ok, long story short. Old laptop died, I got hoster installed on the new laptop with no problems. I copied the KMA files from the office machine to the laptop. When I rebuilt the database the book ID on several (but not all) songs changed from what it is on the office machine. Looking at the individual KMA files the ones that changed show a date attribute of today while others show the date of when I originally added them. Out of desperation I rebuilt the database on the office computer to see if it would match up but it didn't change. So what would cause the laptop to scramble the book ID's and how should I fix this so the two machines are in sync? FYI both machines are Hoster 4.11.

[ddouglass]

Did you "Rebuild" or "Add"? Rebuild does not change the BookIDs but Add will if you have any duplicate BookIDs.
When you Rebuilt it on the Office machine did it give you a message at the end about Duplicate IDs?

[TheMusicGeek]

I copied the KMA files directly to the laptop. When I opened hoster it rebuilt the database automatically. There was no error during this process. I tried to rebuild the database on the tower (office machine) to see if it would change and it stayed the same. Additionally I deleted the songs.mdb file on the tower and let it rebuild automatically. This also made no difference.

The only variable I can think of is the tower had been sequentially updated through various Hoster version over the last three years and the laptop is new and only had 4.10 installed and upgraded to 4.11 a couple of days later.

It was my understanding that the rebuild database wouldn't change the book ID as it only read the kma files and created the songs.mdb database file.

[ddouglass]

You are correct and the order you installed Hoster does not matter because each version is a complete program and not just changed files.
WHen you installed 4.10 or 4.11 did you import anything to test it before copying the KMA files over to it? Is the total number of KMA files exactly the same on both?
Only thing I can suggest is delete all KMA files on the laptop, recopy the ones from the tower, delete the Songs.mdb on the laptop and open Hoster to rebuild again.

[TheMusicGeek]

I installed 4.10 and before I got the KMA files installed 4.11 was released so nothing was on that machine.

Both machines showed the exact same number of KMA files (42567)

I'm trying it again and will post back results. This will take a while.

[TheMusicGeek]

I'm even more confused then when I started but I did get it working so I'm happy.

Copying the files from the tower to the laptop again and recreating the database made no difference. What ended up working was restoring the files from the old laptops backup then recreating the database.

[ddouglass]

That is strange. I certainly can't explain it.

[marklwood]

I think i remember having this problem when I first started testing on Vista. I had some files that were not only changed, but marked read only. I had to go through my KMA directory and select all files, right click, properties, and un-select read only.

As a stop gap, before I figured it out, I just copied my songs.mdb from my other computer. This can only be done if the drive letter and directories are identical on both machines.