HeyDJBren
No power outage this time, and I'm really tired of building new Virtual Folders in 5.0 rev. 2 only to have them disappear the next time I start the software up.
In addition to my Virtual folders pulling a Houdini, my History doesn't show anything for the last time it was used, 9/7/07. I swear that I did a gig with VDJ 5.0 rev. 2 last Friday night, but the History thinks otherwise.
Somebody help me solve this once and for all. There's no way I can keep using 5.0 if I'm going to lose all of my Virtual Folders every 5 days.
In addition to my Virtual folders pulling a Houdini, my History doesn't show anything for the last time it was used, 9/7/07. I swear that I did a gig with VDJ 5.0 rev. 2 last Friday night, but the History thinks otherwise.
Somebody help me solve this once and for all. There's no way I can keep using 5.0 if I'm going to lose all of my Virtual Folders every 5 days.
Inviato Tue 11 Sep 07 @ 5:31 am
HeyDJBren
Bumping this up in hopes that someone can help. Sorry to be so harsh with the subject line, but I've had to rebuild my virtual folders 5 times since I started using 5.0.
Inviato Wed 12 Sep 07 @ 6:14 pm
ewitles
That has happened to me. What I do is drag the MP3 folder and create a virtual right there. Then sometimes i restart and sez database is corrupted. The browser shows the file but is no longer present in the window.
Must quickly recreate...
Oh well... :)
Must quickly recreate...
Oh well... :)
Inviato Wed 12 Sep 07 @ 11:26 pm
djphenominal
What operating system are you using ?
Inviato Thu 13 Sep 07 @ 3:43 am
HeyDJBren
Windows XP Pro.
Inviato Thu 13 Sep 07 @ 5:31 am
chansin
HeyDJBren wrote :
Bumping this up in hopes that someone can help. Sorry to be so harsh with the subject line, but I've had to rebuild my virtual folders 5 times since I started using 5.0.
One thing to do just to save yourself some time until you get the problem fixed is make a backup copy of your database right after you create it. Just make a folder on your drive and call it database backup, copy the database file and then if it does disappear again you can just load your backup copy and it will atleast save you from having to recreate everything. Just make sure and copy, not cut or move the file.
See if this will work for the disappearing database, with the replacing from your backup, and then let's find out why it is going away.
Inviato Thu 13 Sep 07 @ 9:31 pm
HeyDJBren
I've renamed my database at least 3 times.
From what I can tell, it looks like there's a delayed write failure that's happening in the background when VDJ attempts to write to the database on my external drive. However, I'm not able to see the notification for it because the VDJ skin is formatted to fit the whole screen and remove the windows taskbar from view. So what's happening is the software attempts to write to the database, the delayed write failure occurs, the virtual folders disappear from view and I'm forced to disconnect and reconnect the hard drive.
If I could find the cause of the delayed write failure and the fix for it, I'd be all set. VDJ 4.3 didn't have this problem because it wasn't writing anything to the external drive.
From what I can tell, it looks like there's a delayed write failure that's happening in the background when VDJ attempts to write to the database on my external drive. However, I'm not able to see the notification for it because the VDJ skin is formatted to fit the whole screen and remove the windows taskbar from view. So what's happening is the software attempts to write to the database, the delayed write failure occurs, the virtual folders disappear from view and I'm forced to disconnect and reconnect the hard drive.
If I could find the cause of the delayed write failure and the fix for it, I'd be all set. VDJ 4.3 didn't have this problem because it wasn't writing anything to the external drive.
Inviato Fri 14 Sep 07 @ 6:11 am
djqwikcut
try turning off the power saving feature of the USB PORTS in the system control panel under devices and then properties for the USB root hub. THat should fix the issue....
Alsom if you are using any type of external HUB (IE the drive is plugged into a USB hub rather then directly into the PC) make sure it is external powered not self powered...
Alsom if you are using any type of external HUB (IE the drive is plugged into a USB hub rather then directly into the PC) make sure it is external powered not self powered...
Inviato Fri 14 Sep 07 @ 1:07 pm
squid
how can i get another download of my virtual dj
i formated my disc and lost the program ty
i formated my disc and lost the program ty
Inviato Tue 18 Sep 07 @ 4:35 am
DJ-ALF
squid wrote :
how can i get another download of my virtual dj
i formated my disc and lost the program ty
i formated my disc and lost the program ty
Just go here and enter your forum login pass:
http://www.virtualdj.com/update.html
If you can't download contact:
http://www.virtualdj.com/contact/
Inviato Tue 18 Sep 07 @ 2:47 pm
HeyDJBren
djqwikcut wrote :
try turning off the power saving feature of the USB PORTS in the system control panel under devices and then properties for the USB root hub. THat should fix the issue....
Alsom if you are using any type of external HUB (IE the drive is plugged into a USB hub rather then directly into the PC) make sure it is external powered not self powered...
Alsom if you are using any type of external HUB (IE the drive is plugged into a USB hub rather then directly into the PC) make sure it is external powered not self powered...
My external drive uses a Firewire connection, not USB. My USB connections are reserved for my DAC-3 and Maya 44USB.
Any other suggestions on how to fix this issue?
Inviato Tue 18 Sep 07 @ 10:07 pm
pauldavies
I'm afraid it sounds like your external hard drive is about to give up the ghost. Windows delayed write error usually 99% of the time means that windows is trying to write to the disc but keeps failing on corrupted sectors which eventually times out. When it times out you may notice a short or long system hang (depending on the severity).
Best way to check is goto Start->Control Panel->Administrative Tools -> Event Manager click on the system tab and if there is lots of yellow exclamation marks with the delayed write error the I would replace the hard drive - it may be worth trying a full format of the disc (the slow one) and try that but otherwise personally I would get a new disc so you don't loose your valuable music
Best way to check is goto Start->Control Panel->Administrative Tools -> Event Manager click on the system tab and if there is lots of yellow exclamation marks with the delayed write error the I would replace the hard drive - it may be worth trying a full format of the disc (the slow one) and try that but otherwise personally I would get a new disc so you don't loose your valuable music
Inviato Wed 19 Sep 07 @ 1:53 am
cstoll
HeyDJBren wrote :
If I could find the cause of the delayed write failure and the fix for it, I'd be all set. VDJ 4.3 didn't have this problem because it wasn't writing anything to the external drive.
Unfortunately I have to agree that the drive maybe going bad. I had a similar issue 'delay write' happening during the beta testing. I ended up having to trash the drive - 300Gb.
Inviato Wed 19 Sep 07 @ 2:43 am
HeyDJBren
cstoll wrote :
Unfortunately I have to agree that the drive maybe going bad. I had a similar issue 'delay write' happening during the beta testing. I ended up having to trash the drive - 300Gb.
Unfortunately I have to agree that the drive maybe going bad. I had a similar issue 'delay write' happening during the beta testing. I ended up having to trash the drive - 300Gb.
I beg to differ. I add approximately 60 new sound files to this drive every week, either by dragging them from another folder or by ripping directly to this drive. There are no delayed write problems/failures happening when I'm ripping or copying songs to the drive, so there's got to be something else causing the delayed write failures when I'm using VDJ. The drive is fine - I use it every weekend and never have problems with it - only when I'm using VDJ 5.0rev2.
I'd really like to get to the cause of the problem... can someone actually help pinpoint it?
Inviato Tue 25 Sep 07 @ 5:59 am
Ruudboy
Have the same problem... however only with my external drive..
Inviato Tue 25 Sep 07 @ 10:20 am
DJ_whiteDVL
HeyDJBren
One thing you can do is just backup the database XML file from the VDJ folder, if this happens just copy the backup over and try opening it. I have virtual folders on my system although its not dissapearing on me so unfortunatelly I can't be of much better help then that although I believe the entire virtual folders and record case is being worked on for the next version. not sure if that will be a fix or not though.
Hope this helps
One thing you can do is just backup the database XML file from the VDJ folder, if this happens just copy the backup over and try opening it. I have virtual folders on my system although its not dissapearing on me so unfortunatelly I can't be of much better help then that although I believe the entire virtual folders and record case is being worked on for the next version. not sure if that will be a fix or not though.
Hope this helps
Inviato Wed 26 Sep 07 @ 3:49 pm