Problem with the Indexing

[ScorpionOwnYa]

Hi everyone, think you might be able to help a fellow MPC'er?

As some of you know, I'm working on a big project right now. However, it seems I can't continue working on it for now. You see, I tried to save a part of a song as usual, and it saved. The problem is it didn't show up in the index list. The only way for me to access that specific part is to load the arr. and select the piece from there. What's going on? Why won't it show up?

I know how MPC tends to overwrite earlier pieces by the same name (no prob with that), but I sort my songs specifically to avoid program conflicts like this. I know it isn't exactly the most stable program out there, but I really like composing with it, as you all do. Trying to solve problems is part of the fun, but now I think it went to far when you can't even load up the song file from index.

That's a shame, I'm around 95% done actually.

Thank you for helping me out!

EDIT: I counted my song files, I have about 350 indexed files.

[Jamie]

After you reach a certain number of files on the list, MPC can't hold anymore and the files don't appear on the song list. There's a few ways to avoid this problem. The files you're saving are there and are being saved, so there's a really simple fix.

-If you care about your old song files (from previous projects), it would be smart to make a copy of the entire Mario Paint Composer folder as an archive for all your old files.
-Go to the folder "Prefs" (inside the MPC folder). There should be text files for all of your saved file names.
-Look for the text file titled "MarioPaintSongList.txt" and open it. This is the list of all the files you've saved. They should appear in the format "filenameexample]MarioPaint*filenameexample2]MarioPaint*". Each file ends with an asterisk and then the next file is listed.
-Simply delete the names of old files to remove them from the song list. This will give MPC more room and it will be able to fit in the new text files you've saved but didn't appear before.
-Make sure you delete it so that the entire file name, everything up to including the asterisk of the last file is deleted.
Ex.
8VA - 1 - JAMIE]MarioPaint*8VA - 2 - JAMIE]MarioPaint*8VA - 3 - JAMIE]MarioPaint*8VA - 4 - JAMIE]MarioPaint*8VA - 5 - JAMIE]MarioPaint*8VA - 6 - JAMIE]MarioPaint*8VA - 7 - JAMIE]MarioPaint*8VA - 8 - JAMIE]MarioPaint*8VA - 9 - JAMIE]MarioPaint*8VA - 10 - JAMIE]MarioPaint*8VA - 11 - JAMIE]MarioPaint*8VA - 12 - JAMIE]MarioPaint*

If I wanted to delete the first 4 files, it'd become:

8VA - 5 - JAMIE]MarioPaint*8VA - 6 - JAMIE]MarioPaint*8VA - 7 - JAMIE]MarioPaint*8VA - 8 - JAMIE]MarioPaint*8VA - 9 - JAMIE]MarioPaint*8VA - 10 - JAMIE]MarioPaint*8VA - 11 - JAMIE]MarioPaint*8VA - 12 - JAMIE]MarioPaint*

So I suggest starting with the oldest files listed to avoid confusion. Delete however many files you see fit. That's all there is to it.