Not showing all files over NAS (1 Viewer)

[nlouch]

I have a cheap NAS device that I use to store all my photographs on (and eventually music/movies).

My media centre PC has this mapped as "\\storage1\media" -> "M:"

So, "m:\photos" contains 45 folders, each full of JPG photos. Explorer sees this fine, it is not slow, and works flawlessly.

In MediaPortal, I browse to this location and it doesn't show all the folders. It often shows around 25-29 folders, randomly ignoring some.

I say randomly, as it seems to choose which folders to display differently each time - sometimes doubling-up the folders.

I have tried by setting directories for both "M:\photos" and "\\storage1\media\photos".

I am wondering:
1) Is this a caching issue?
2) A timeout issue?

Thank you for any help you can provide.

 

[Marcusb]

in MP config, it's usually best to set the path to the UNC path, not the mapped drive.
so in your case, \\storage1\media is your best bet, not M.
Strangely, I wouldn't have thought you would have any results with the mapped path.

 

[nlouch]

I shall try again with a full UNC path.

I can verify that I did get results with a mapped path however.

Thanks for helping me with this. I am so impressed by MediaPortal, and as a user of XBMC I adore the featuresets!

 

[nlouch]

Right - checked it over UNC (\\storage1\media\photos\)... Still get the same issue.

Sometimes showing all folders, sometimes showing a random selection of folders, sometimes doubling up the number of folders.

Could it be anything to do with thumbnails taking a long time to render?

It just feels like some sort of timeouts thing. I have about 45 folders, each with a lot of pics in. I have recently re-installed MP, and so it's not fully created all the thumbnails.

Then again - it could be an issue with the NAS device itself.

 

[nlouch]

Right, this is really a FYI post.

The issue is NOT replicated when I share the same files (via UNC) on a PC.

I then assumed the issue was with the NAS unit. Upon further investigation, it seems that others have found this issue when trying to access from XBMC.

Idea: Connect the drive to a spare PC via USB, and then share. Works fine.

So to summarise - the issue is with the NAS unti (a Lindy mini-NAS) and the problem lies withing the firmware it runs.