Mapped drives not showing up (1 Viewer)

[pt4117]

I'm running Windows 8 and just installed mp.15, but I'm having a problem with not seeing mapped drives in MP. I launch MP configuration, go to plugins, and try to configure mp tv-series and I can't see/add any network drives. The same thing happens with Moving Pictures.

The really odd thing is that if I just launch the MP TV-Series Configuration tool as a stand alone program it shows mapped drives normally. I tried running as an administrator, and turning UAC off but still no luck.

 

[mbuzina]

Config runs as admin and often does not see the mapped drives. I would recommend to enter paths manually & use UNC paths instead of drive letters. That should work.

 

[pt4117]

Thanks. That's annoying. My XP machine running 1.3 (or maybe it was 1.2) could do mapped drives. Now I have to import everything over again. It's extra annoying for me since my network is pretty dynamic and those UNC paths will probably change often.

It is really weird that I can see the mapped drives when running MP TV-Series config natively.

 

[mbuzina]

Hmm, can you type the path (including the mapped drive) manually?

 

[pt4117]

They are in the database, and the import worked fine when using the native mp-tv series config, but they aren't available when I'm in MP. They are in red which meant my drive wasn't attached properly (usually because I changed something on my network and had to adjust my mapped drive).

 

[mbuzina]

Ah, OK - so the issue is not MP Config not being able to Access them, but MP when running, got it. I guess you need to check the permissions on them then. There also is a plugin to re-connect Network drives when MP starts (some people seem to have such an issue)

 

[pt4117]

I'm the owner of all the files and I'm running as the same domain admin on all my machines. The drives are all connected. just fine. I did run into the mapped drives not connecting problem before, but just wrote a script to reconnect them 30 seconds after startup on that machine. I didn't know there was a plugin for it. Good to know.

I'm wondering if this has anything to do with Windows 8 running this in separate memory. I haven't really used Windows 8 too much outside of very vanilla cases. I know that there is a group policy that lets you turn that off, but I haven't had a chance to try this yet. This is a Windows 8.1 Enterprise machine. I'm not sure if forcing the 'run in separate memory' is unique to it.

 

[mbuzina]

I run on Windows 8.1 as well (one also Enterprise). Maybe you could produce a log of the issue in Debug mode? Might help.