norrad Posted October 12, 2004 Report Share Posted October 12, 2004 Hi, I apologize if this has been addressed elsewhere. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I have a VAIO NV170 with a 60G HD. 15G on C:drive and the rest on D: My OS froze up and I could not boot my drive. I had to use my restore discs to reinstall/wipe my C drive. My photos, music files, and videos were all on my D drive and are still there. However, sonicstage will NOT recognize the existing database. Any ideas? I've tried loading different versions of SonicStage ( I was running 2.0 before the "crash" ) but nothing works. Thanks for your time, Darron7000@aol.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jadeclaw Posted October 12, 2004 Report Share Posted October 12, 2004 You can safely delete the SonicStage database. It is useless anyway. Problem: SonicStage encrypts the files in that database and the key to that was on the C-drive. There is only one way to save a database: Using the SonicStage Backup to backup the whole database onto a different drive e.g. external USB-Harddisk. If something goes wrong, you can use that backup to restore everything. *looks at your mailaddy* @aol.com ? The AOL-Software is known for killing Windows installations purely at random. I also have seen reports, where a harddisk died after an AOL-install... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norrad Posted October 12, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 12, 2004 drat! i was hoping there might be a back door. Thanks for your reply. another query then, my friend has about the same music files as I do. If he does a backup to a hard disc, can I then restore that database to my new, virgin install of sonic stage? Installing his 40gigs of music in one fell swoop beats endless hours of going cd by cd. now i am grateful i never threw away/recorded over my old SP md collection made on my jb920. regarding AOL, yeah, it's a piece of crap, it freezes and crashes all the time. i should change - but along those lines/arguments everyone should be using a Mac. . . lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jadeclaw Posted October 12, 2004 Report Share Posted October 12, 2004 Yes. You can do that. Remember, that your SonicStage version must be the same or newer to read that backup. Btw, 2.2 is the latest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norrad Posted October 12, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 12, 2004 vielen danke Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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