Database Error

Database Error:  

You will first test to see if your database is missing or corrupt.

Follow these steps to see if your database is missing or corrupt.

1. Open MediaShout.
2. Click tools > settings > songs > click the browse folder (this should open your window to the location of your songs)
3. Click (Songs3.mdb or songs4.mdb this is your song file) > click select > click apply.   

            Note:  After clicking the browse button usually the look in will be in the location MediaShout is pulling your   

                      song database from. Please write down the location of this file for later use in these instructions.

Determine if your database is corrupt or missing.

Please follow these steps to determine if your database is corrupt of missing. 

1. If there is no song file when you click the browse button then your file is missing.  You will need to find your file or replace the file by using following the instructions below to fix the database.
2. If you receive the error message again after selecting the song database then your song file is corrupted and you will need to replace your song file by following the instructions below.

Follow these instructions to fix the corrupt database or missing database.  

1. Close MediaShout.
2. Refer the location you wrote down earlier. Go to My Computer  > browse for the location above > right click on your song file then rename your old database (songs3 old or songs4old).
3. Save the attached file at the bottom of this article for your version to this same location.
4. Unzip the file >right click on the file > click copy > browse to the destination you wrote down earlier >  click paste. You should now have a file named (songs3.mdb or songs4.mdb) or (songs3 or songs4).

            Note: This could be different for each person but usually this is done by right clicking the file > choosing extract all > choose the same location from

            above for the file to extract to.

       5. Open MediaShout.

       6. If you get an error at this time please continue to step 4.  If you did not get an error you are finished. 

       7. Next you will want to restore from an old backup, whether the file is one MediaShout has backed up or one that you have backed up.

            Note: If you have opened MediaShout more than three times since this error message all of your backups could possibly be corrupt.         

                      To restore from backup:

                                 Version 4.x:

                                              a.    Select Window > Song Deck to open a song deck.

                                              b.    Click the Song Library Management Tools button .

                                              c.    Select Restore Library. The Restore Song Library dialog box opens.

                                              d.    Click the song file you wish to restore.  

                                                                       Note: If you receive and error after restoring the database please see note below. You will have to replace                                                                                            the database with the above instructions but this time you will not be able to restore from that backup                                                                                          because the  backup file you used is corrupt.      

                           Version 3.x:

                                          a.     Click tools > click ShoutSinger

                                          b.    Click file > click restore from backup

                                          c.    Browse to find your backup.

                                          d.   Click the song file you wish to restore.  

                                                 Note: If you receive and error after restoring the database please see note below you will have to replace the database with the                                                            above instructions but this time you will not be able to restore from that backup because the backup file you used is                                                                    corrupt.    

                   Restore your library when your backup is corrupt.  

                                          a.    You will recover some songs as you open your old scripts, which MediaShout will prompt you to add the songs.

                                          b.   Or if you imported songs from SongSelect you will download those again from SongSelect .