[Plugin] MPCleaner - Deletes images from your thumbs folder that are no longer in use (2 Viewers)
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- September 2, 2007
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Hi, I tried your plugin for the first time yesterday. And I have a question, if I may.
As I'm already using MP for 15 years I have 2.5Gb of thumbs to clean - and that might be the cause of the behavior I noticed.
Behavior 1:
When I install it via the MPEinstaller, it seems to install fine. Just 2 files - and you get the pop-up with preferences.
But when I start MP Config after that install, the MP Config UI won't show anymore - you get the splash screen and then nothing anymore. However you still see MP Config as a back-end process running in task manager. (Could be caused because the plugin starts working on its lengthy cleaning duty.)
Behavior 2:
So I uninstalled, and installed again via the MPEinstaller but this time I immediately started the clean operation in the pop-up that is shown during install.
It crashed and gave me a lengthy error message. (didn't log it but can repeat it if needed)
As I know MP inside-out & my general log is clean (no conflicts), I was wondering if there is a limit on how many files your plugin can process in 1 go. I have a huge amount of thumbs on my disk so I was wondering if that might be the cause of this behavior.
Does the plugin attempt to process all files in 1 go (which might explain the error) or does it break it down in iterations?
As I'm already using MP for 15 years I have 2.5Gb of thumbs to clean - and that might be the cause of the behavior I noticed.
Behavior 1:
When I install it via the MPEinstaller, it seems to install fine. Just 2 files - and you get the pop-up with preferences.
But when I start MP Config after that install, the MP Config UI won't show anymore - you get the splash screen and then nothing anymore. However you still see MP Config as a back-end process running in task manager. (Could be caused because the plugin starts working on its lengthy cleaning duty.)
Behavior 2:
So I uninstalled, and installed again via the MPEinstaller but this time I immediately started the clean operation in the pop-up that is shown during install.
It crashed and gave me a lengthy error message. (didn't log it but can repeat it if needed)
As I know MP inside-out & my general log is clean (no conflicts), I was wondering if there is a limit on how many files your plugin can process in 1 go. I have a huge amount of thumbs on my disk so I was wondering if that might be the cause of this behavior.
Does the plugin attempt to process all files in 1 go (which might explain the error) or does it break it down in iterations?
I recently upgraded from MP1.30 to 1.33 and it would not start - multiple errors from MPCleaner like this:
MPCleaner did not show in the list of installed extensions for some reason; if it was would it have been flagged as causing problems with MP1.33?
In the end I resolved it by manually installing MPCleaner 1.1.0.22 from the extension manager, which overwrote "C:\Program Files (x86)\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\System.Data.SQLite.dll" with the earlier 108 version. As I use sqlserver not mysql, maybe mediaportal wasn't actually using it at all? Otherwise it might have caused other problems.
MP1.33 installs System.Data.SQLite.dll 1.0.117 these days, but MPCleaner still looks for 1.0.108.
MPCleaner did not show in the list of installed extensions for some reason; if it was would it have been flagged as causing problems with MP1.33?
In the end I resolved it by manually installing MPCleaner 1.1.0.22 from the extension manager, which overwrote "C:\Program Files (x86)\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\System.Data.SQLite.dll" with the earlier 108 version. As I use sqlserver not mysql, maybe mediaportal wasn't actually using it at all? Otherwise it might have caused other problems.
Try this recompiled version:
- added support for x64
- compiled against System.Data.SQLite.dll 1.0.117
- MP 1.33 only
EDIT: fixed x86/64 System.Data.SQLite.dll file
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Many thanks for the quick fix, I'll try it this evening.
I also noticed that when I uninstalled the plugin the old behaviour reappeared (MP wouldn't start because MPCleaner couldn't find 108 again). Assuming having MPCleaner is not essential, and the extension manager is confused and not uninstalling it correctly, is there a way to manually uninstall it? Is it as simple as deleting any remaining MPCleaner.dll in the system?
I also noticed that when I uninstalled the plugin the old behaviour reappeared (MP wouldn't start because MPCleaner couldn't find 108 again). Assuming having MPCleaner is not essential, and the extension manager is confused and not uninstalling it correctly, is there a way to manually uninstall it? Is it as simple as deleting any remaining MPCleaner.dll in the system?
Yes. The deleting the MPCleaner.dll file will remove the plugin from MediaPortal.