Probably a very noobish question regarding removable drives. (1 Viewer)

[Rijnton]

Sorry if this has been asked before, because I had not the time yet to read this long thread. Also sorry if my question is too noobish,because I just started with Mediaportal (and Moving Pictuures of course).
I have a few extra harddisks with movies, that I connect to my pc with a docking station when needed. When I scan all the movies on them and add covers (manually for some of them) etc., what happens when I disconnect them and reconnect them later ? I already read that the movies are deleted from the database when the drive is disconnected. Will the database be restored again for the movies on the drive in question when it is reconnected again ?

 

[ltfearme]

Hey Rijnton, I have a very similar environment with a USB HDD Dock. When you remove your drive you can still browse your collection. When you attempt to play something that is offline it will prompt for the corresponding drive.

Offline files will generally appear in a different colour.

 

[kiwijunglist]

I think you have to tag the Hard drive as a removable drive when you add it to the moving pictures watch folder don't you?

 

[ltfearme]

No, it automatically recognizes it as removable drive. So only when the HDD is inserted, it will do whatever maintenance operations are required e.g remove any movies that have been deleted.

 

[kiwijunglist]

oh fancy.

 

[MrCrispy]

No, it automatically recognizes it as removable drive. So only when the HDD is inserted, it will do whatever maintenance operations are required e.g remove any movies that have been deleted.

Interesting. Can it recognize an eSata external as a removable drive?

 

[armandp]

No, it automatically recognizes it as removable drive. So only when the HDD is inserted, it will do whatever maintenance operations are required e.g remove any movies that have been deleted.

Interesting. Can it recognize an eSata external as a removable drive?

Yes, it should

 

[Rijnton]

No, it automatically recognizes it as removable drive. So only when the HDD is inserted, it will do whatever maintenance operations are required e.g remove any movies that have been deleted.

Interesting. Can it recognize an eSata external as a removable drive?

Yes, it should

Can confirm this meanwhile. My docking station is connected to eSata and it works.

 

[BigBear]

hi guys,

i wanna buy one of these:

http://www.antec.com/Believe_it/product.php?id=MjA3Mg==

Antec - Easy SATA

it is connected via internal sata so i dont know if it is recognized as removable drive.
can i tell moving pictures somehow that its removable?
Just in case it is recognized as normal HDD.

thanks!

 

[armandp]

what defines removable is not really important. Moving Pictures stores the volume serial number of the drive/partition a movie was imported from. If you change the drive but use the same drive letter the serials will differ and moving pictures won't delete the movies.