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John horton

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My old computer crashed and i had to get a new one. I had all my light shows saved on a back up Cd's so i didn't lose them. However now it says it can't find the media files. Unfortunately i didn't have any of the music on my old computer backed up to a disk so does that mean that i'm screwed and will need to find and down load all of them again. If that is the case I think LOR needs to change that so the media file is saved with the seq. file. I couldn't believe it when i went to play the seq. and that file was missing i thought i had my butt cover by saving them to disk.

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John,

If you did not save the audio directory along with the sequence directory, then yes, you will need to get the songs again somehow. Since I have used LOR for 5-6 years now, it has always been known that there were 2 separate directories. There most likely is some sort of copyright issue that does not allow the 2 to be merged.

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John horton wrote:

My old computer crashed and i had to get a new one. I had all my light shows saved on a back up Cd's so i didn't lose them. However now it says it can't find the media files. Unfortunately i didn't have any of the music on my old computer backed up to a disk so does that mean that i'm screwed and will need to find and down load all of them again. If that is the case I think LOR needs to change that so the media file is saved with the seq. file. I couldn't believe it when i went to play the seq. and that file was missing i thought i had my butt cover by saving them to disk.
Did your hard drive crash?
You still might be able to access the files.
Go to your local computer store and ask for an adapter.
Explain what you want to do.
I bought one 2 years ago for around $35 in Canada.
Just a thought.

Back up the LOR folder next time...
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yes the hard drive crashed no way to recover any of the lost data. thanks for the replies. This sucks it took me months to find all those songs last time looks like there will not be a light show this year. guess i'll just have to do a static display till i have the time to get all this worked out.

Thanks again

john

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And once again, we are all reminded why it is so important to backup our files.

I think I will go backup my folder right now because I haven't in the last 3 months.

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While I am in heavy editing mode as I am now, I not only back up on my sequence machine, but take a daily back up onto an external HDD.

Did you buy the songs? What are the titles? Those of us with large song libraries may be able to help you out to recover you material.

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