10-27-2013, 12:50 AM
Hmm thx for adding that. Most of my songs are also PDFs.
I ended up rolling back to 4.0.19, which came up fine. But after I had restored my library from an backup.msb file, THAT crashed 4.0.19. So I removed the library from the tab, de-installed MS, re-installed 4.0.19, and then rebuilt my library from a clean start - lot of work but seemed the only way short of going back to a paper book, which the band doesn't want on stage anymore. 4.0.19 + new library worked perfectly onstage for a 2-1/2 hr gig last nite. I had a few crashes when I was re-entering all the annotations during the rebuild, but the setlist on the gig behaved perfectly.
I could think of 2 things that might have done something to the original library (in the backup) enuf to crash 4.0.19 -
1. I'd wrestled with annotating songs in 4.1.0 a good bit before I figured out that it just wasn't working, much back+forth. I wonder if that left enuf of a mess in the database that 4.0.19 couldn't get thru it.
2. I copied a new song file (PDF) onto the tablet, overwriting an old file, for a couple songs (using an FTP utility), without first deleting the song from MS library. I wonder if that coulda messed it up too.
I'm going to leave it for today+tomorrow (nother gig tomorrow). Early next week I'll backup what I have, and attempt to go straight to 4.1.1. If that's not OK I will probably "sit" on 4.0.19 for a while and consider my options. All obviously dependent on further advice from Mike.
I ended up rolling back to 4.0.19, which came up fine. But after I had restored my library from an backup.msb file, THAT crashed 4.0.19. So I removed the library from the tab, de-installed MS, re-installed 4.0.19, and then rebuilt my library from a clean start - lot of work but seemed the only way short of going back to a paper book, which the band doesn't want on stage anymore. 4.0.19 + new library worked perfectly onstage for a 2-1/2 hr gig last nite. I had a few crashes when I was re-entering all the annotations during the rebuild, but the setlist on the gig behaved perfectly.
I could think of 2 things that might have done something to the original library (in the backup) enuf to crash 4.0.19 -
1. I'd wrestled with annotating songs in 4.1.0 a good bit before I figured out that it just wasn't working, much back+forth. I wonder if that left enuf of a mess in the database that 4.0.19 couldn't get thru it.
2. I copied a new song file (PDF) onto the tablet, overwriting an old file, for a couple songs (using an FTP utility), without first deleting the song from MS library. I wonder if that coulda messed it up too.
I'm going to leave it for today+tomorrow (nother gig tomorrow). Early next week I'll backup what I have, and attempt to go straight to 4.1.1. If that's not OK I will probably "sit" on 4.0.19 for a while and consider my options. All obviously dependent on further advice from Mike.