Moving songs between databases

[Dangthrimble]

I’ve tried moving songs between databases within the “Edit Database Item” screen but, having selected the new database, when I select the save and exit icon the song remains in its original database.

[wk]

Looks like a bug in Easyslides5. I will fix it in the next update. In the mean time, you can use menu option Edit->Copy to copy an item to a new database.

[Dangthrimble]

Yesterday I tried moving songs using the Move icon on the menu. It seemed to create a copy rather than moving the song. I then tried deleting the original song and it appeared to delete the new copy.

[wk]

Hi. I have replicated the issue with the original item not removed from the database. I will get that fixed in 5.0.2. When I delete the original, it is the original which is deleted though, not the new copy. Could you try again? Thanks

[Tim]

Hi am new here but have a question. I want to save the songs that are on an old pc running easyslides 4 on to a usb and then load them onto a new pc with easyslides 5. is this do-able and if so, how? Also, is there a spanish language pack? If you could let me know that would be great. Thanks

[broetman]

IF you;re building a new pc, then the easiest way is FIRST to copy the easislidesdata folder to your new PC.
Then copy the file InitialConfig.xml from C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\EasiSlides to the new pc
Edit the file to reflect the location of the copied easislidesdata folder on the new pc:

If you already did an installation of ES5 , uninstall it and then remove the folder
C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\EasYSlides (note: Easy… not easi…. folder )

Now start the ‘fresh’ installation of ES 5 and all your songbooks and bibles will be converted properly.

Re. Spanish translation: You can help by starting a language file: In the menu, tools an option exists’ export language file’ You can work on it and mail the result.

Good luck.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 6 months ago by broetman.

[montyb50]

Hi Wk,
I’ve noticed with the copy item, it will copy one item to a new DB, but if I try to copy another item it won’t copy it; I have to close Easyslides, relaunch, refind the next song, then copy it.
I’m having to copy multiple items each week at the moment as we are using mp3s to go with words, & then setting up the timed sequences for each song & changing how each song is made up, etc, storing them in a different song DB so it has different settings (font, size etc,
this is so I don’t change the original DB item, as we will eventually go back to normal use.
so you can imagine this is a bit of a pain to have to shut it down after copying one song & relaunch ES

MontyB

[montyb50]

Hi WK,

I think I’ve worked out why I’ve been having problems with the Copy item tool…It is working, but its all to do with which DB folder is open/showing at the top

I was typing or pasting the song title into the search box, then selecting the song, right clicking & then “Copy item”, but the Copy item wasn’t always working,
I worked out that it was because the DB Folder name at the top wasn’t the actual folder the song was in
e.g. Have Folder 1 open, search for a song title, use the “Copy item” to copy to Folder 2, it works.
Swap to Folder 2 (to edit the song), then while still showing Folder 2 search for another song, it will find it, but won’t copy it.
Change back to Folder 1 & search again, this time it copies the song to Folder 2

So that sorts that one out 🙂

cheers
Monty

[wk]

Hi Monty

I had done many tests and couldn’t replicate the problem, and was going to post here to ask for more information. Glad you posted here to let me know it is working! Many thanks.

[wk]

Hi dangthrimble

Just to confirm that the edit item issue will be fixed in v5.0.2.

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