How to skip maintenace?

MovingPictures does not recognize a HDD based on drive letter, it also looks at the serial number. Since you changed the physical drive, this info has changed, which prompts the maintenance task to clear out the movies.

Your only solution now is to edit the MovingPictures.db3 database with an SQLite database editor tool and replace the old serial with the new one.

The SQL command in question is as follows: UPDATE local_media SET volume_serial = REPLACE(volume_serial, 'old_volume_serial', 'new_volume_serial');

And you obviously have to replace that with the correct volume_serial strings, if you don't know the value of the new one, easiest way to obtain it, is to just create a new MovPic database and set it up with a new import parth that only contains one or a few movies. Import those and then check the db3 file.

 

Actually could you post some logs of this happening ? and did you by any chance reinstall MediaPortal?
I saw the same thing happen once when the virtual drive letter set in the MediaPortal configuration is the same as your DVD/BD drive.

If the drive letter stays the same for the bluray drive there should be no issue.
Also the serial should be not involved with the removal of your movies.

 

Hi, i'm currently working on some code to prevent this from happening in the future (issue).

From your logs the only thing i can think of that could cause this if the import path E: was removed and readded (with the plugin actively picking up on the removal). The import path record will have a different ID and the old import path add reference (even though both refer to E:\) will be invalid.. resulting in the deletion of the movies. For now you can prevent this from happening by editing the database and replace the invalid importpath id with the new import path id.

Steps for the workaround:

1) Open the database with your favorite SQLLite editor and look in the table "import_path"
2) Write down the id for the import path that specifies E:\
3) If a record for E:\ does not exist in the import path table, create one (the internallymanaged column should be checked/true)
4) Check the "local_media" table and see what 'importpath' id is filled in for the files have a path on E: (this is your old ID)
5) Replace the import path id's for these records with the one written down in 2/3)

Statement: UPDATE local_media SET importpath = <NEW ID> WHERE importpath = <OLD ID>

 

so can you confirm that the path for E: had a different ID or did you have to create a new one?