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VideoPsalm

 

Recover a deleted songbook

10/2/2016

8 Comments

 
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”:
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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".
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VideoPsalm 1.16
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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:
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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:
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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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For more specific help, please contact us via the contact form.
8 Comments
Ron
11/19/2016 07:07:12 pm

When I open video psalm one day, one of the songbooks doesn't show anymore. I tried your tutorial above, but it seems that the songbook still in the computer. It's .json file. How can I make it appear again? Did I click something that probably made it disappear?
Thank you for your help.

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VideoPsalm link
11/20/2016 12:15:04 am

Hi Ron,

To make you sonbook visible again, try the following:

1. Right-click on the songbook panel.

2. Select "Show songbooks excluded from the search".

Your missing songbook should now show in the list, greyed-out.

3. To enable VideoPsalm to search songs into it, right-click on the songbook, and select "Include the songbook in the search".

Now the songbook is not greyed-out anymore.

4. Save your changes.

Does it work for you?
If not, please send me your songbook file (.json or .vpc) in an email attachment, and I will investigate further.

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LC
5/15/2017 08:23:36 am

Hi, I recently got a new computer and before checking how to properly move the songbooks and other files I moved all of those files onto an external hard drive and and then put them onto my new computer. Now my songbook files that I want to use is a .json and a .json.ignore file and after downloading the software onto my new computer and trying to follow the above instructions, when right clicking I only have the option to "copy a songbook summary to the Clipboard"

Is there a way to be able to view these files again after not following the proper PC tranfer steps or have a lost them for good?
Thank you for the help!

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VideoPsalm link
5/17/2017 04:35:11 am

Hi LC,

Thank you for your message.
Your songbooks can of course be read by the other PC.

Basically, put their file in the following folder:
C:\Users\Public\Documents\VideoPsalm\SongBooks

Does it work for you?
If not, please send me a screenshot of the problem.

The following article describes your task more in details:
http://myvideopsalm.weebly.com/blog/how-to-backup-videopsalms-data-or-start-it-from-a-usb-stick-portable-videopsalm

Please note that this forums are not monitored thoroughly.
To be able to send images and formatted text, please use our email at gmail directly.

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Praise
6/17/2017 12:08:26 am

Hi. One of my song book doesnt show any more when I open Videopsalm. It is not hidden either. I tried the above mentioned options also. But nothing worked. But it is showing in the song book folder as English Song Book.json .

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VideoPsalm link
6/17/2017 02:28:23 pm

Hi Praise,
Please send me your songbook file in an email attachment at gmail, so that I can investigate.

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Daniela
10/11/2018 12:38:23 am

Hi VideoPsalm, one of our songbook just vanished, I have tried all of the above and beyond.
Now, the songbook is back, the problem is that when I open the songbook it says there is only one song, when I click on the song is all the songs of that specific songbook on one (weird) filed, it's kind of coded.
This is a small segment of what is showing me.
Text:"Déjanos ver
el mover de tu presencia
revélanos más y más de tu grandeza."}),Style:{Background:{Video:"Blue Green Screen Gradient Background Animation Stock Video 2.wmv"}},

How do I return them into being each song individually instead of one mashup weird song?
Thank you and God bless, this program has been great help for or church :)

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VideoPsalm link
10/11/2018 01:30:26 am

Hi Daniela,
Please send me your songbook (the corresponding .json file) as a file attachment to an email at my gmail account VideoPsalm, so that I can investigate.

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