My Song Database is Gone!

[flcalgona]

Hello!

This is my first time posting in this forum, but today when I opened my EW2009 all my database of songs were gone! As well, most of my video files!Even when I opened it, the program asked if I wanted to import 100 free songs.

I have asked the Pastor and no one has done anything to this computer, which is what I thought.

The ONLY thing that is possible, is I installed AVG Tune-Up and ran a scan to try and speed up my system. Is it possible that all the files of songs were stripped? I was not present over the weekend, so today is the first time I opened the program since last week. No one else, I'm sure, would realize anything was missing.

I have found buried in my computer a folder labeled Softtouch and as I keep opening folders there is one labeled rebuild or something of that nature. I think this MIGHT be the key to problem, but I have no idea how to restore all these songs.

I was just hitting the year point and looking forward to not having to spend much time on music for the screens as much of our music is repeated.

If anyone has solutions, please let me know!

Thanks!

[petereit]

Restore from your backup?

[SMACK!!] OW! What?!

[daver2]

Firstly, welcome to CMN.

Sorry to hear about your problems - but yes AVG Tune-up could have stripped or moved the files if it thought they were something else. However, the number of times that people have been into our A/V equipment and "fiddled" thinking they were helping and done some 'damage' is too numerous to count!

We don't use EW so I can't give you a definitive answer - but you should always backup your system to ensure that you can effectively recover after any failure. We use a second partition with a complete image of our hard drive stored on that - and a second (removable) drive with a further image (just in case the physical disk drive fails). We also use a RAID disk array. This protects us from hardware failures - but not from people or software making (intentional) changes to the disk contents.

Ghosting a drive like this is the best way as you get the system just how you want it and take a bit-for-bit copy of the disk.

Hope someone else who knows EW can help further.

Dave

[[Admin] osborn4]

I there a quarantine in AVG that you could search?

I'd check the EasyWorship forums and see if someone else has experience this.