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<blockquote data-quote="RoChess" data-source="post: 1032994" data-attributes="member: 18896">@[USER=123921]mediacowboy[/USER], as stated it is indeed going to be the Sherlock Holmes approach to debugging. Exclude everything so that what you are left with even if it is unlikely *is* the cause. If MP-TVSeries would over time corrupt the database or be unable to deal with ' char inside folder or filename, then thousands of users would have already complained. That already tells us it is something else on your system, or worse a combination of things.&nbsp;Starting clean and keeping a constant eye on what event triggers the problem is going to be slow and painful, but might be needed.&nbsp;Even opening an SQLite database in a tool such as SQLiteBrowser can &quot;lock&quot; the file causing problems when MediaPortal/MP-TVSeries has access to the same file. In my tweaking I found that an easy solution is to 'copy' the file first and then open/view/edit the copy. That is done via the Windows API which is thread-safe so it does not cause any issues.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RoChess, post: 1032994, member: 18896"] @[USER=123921]mediacowboy[/USER], as stated it is indeed going to be the Sherlock Holmes approach to debugging. Exclude everything so that what you are left with even if it is unlikely *is* the cause. If MP-TVSeries would over time corrupt the database or be unable to deal with ' char inside folder or filename, then thousands of users would have already complained. That already tells us it is something else on your system, or worse a combination of things. Starting clean and keeping a constant eye on what event triggers the problem is going to be slow and painful, but might be needed. Even opening an SQLite database in a tool such as SQLiteBrowser can "lock" the file causing problems when MediaPortal/MP-TVSeries has access to the same file. In my tweaking I found that an easy solution is to 'copy' the file first and then open/view/edit the copy. That is done via the Windows API which is thread-safe so it does not cause any issues. [/QUOTE]

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