Recover a deleted songbook

VideoPsalm stores songbooks into individual files.
When you delete a songbook via the "Delete" button in VideoPsalm, you can get it back easily.

Let's say that you deleted a songbook, for example your “Big Song Collection”:

When you delete a songbook, VideoPsalm doesn't delete it.
Instead, it renames it with a .ignore file extension and thus does not load it at the next start.

If your songbook was called "Complete Mission Praise Book.vpc", after deletion it will be called ​"Complete Mission Praise Book.vpc.ignore".

VideoPsalm 1.16

VideoPsalm 1.17 (not available as of Oct. 2016)

To get a deleted songbook back:

​1. Open the VideoPsalm options and navigate to the folder where VideoPsalm stores its documents:

The usual location is:
C:\Users\Public\Documents\VideoPsalm

VideoPsalm stores the songbooks in the "Songbooks" sub-folder:
C:\Users\Public\Documents\VideoPsalm\Songbooks

If your songbook was called "Complete Mission Praise Book.vpc", after deletion it will be called ​"Complete Mission Praise Book.vpc.ignore".

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2. Rename the songbook file by removing the ".ignore" file extension.
If you don't see file extensions, tell the Windows File Explorer to display them.
By default, Windows hides the file extensions.
To complete the recover process, tell Windows to show the file extensions, via the Windows File Explorer options:

3. Start VideoPsalm to check if your songbook is back.

Does it work for you?

Another reason why you don't find your songbook in the list of songbooks:
Make sure that the option “Hide songbooks excluded from the search” is selected:

Right-click on the list of songbooks and select “Show songbooks excluded from the search”:

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