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<blockquote data-quote="RoChess" data-source="post: 540605" data-attributes="member: 18896">Corruption can be big or mild, your clearly got a mild one, since most stuff still functions.And if you make a copy of the database, whatever tests you do, can all be undone by restoring it.Simply make a copy of:&quot;E:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal&quot; *and* &quot;E:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Team MediaPortal&quot;Then do all your testing and once done (and you hopefully found the cause), you delete the contents of those folders and restore the backup. New files might have been created, so a delete+restore is easier.I myself, simply make a copy of the &quot;MediaPortal&quot; sub folder in the forementioned folders. Using your folder structure, I got:E:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\Copy of MediaPortalE:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal(and one for the Data folder)That is just the foldername autogenerated by Windows when you do a CTRL+C and CTRL+V action. The folder for me contains a duplicate before I started making skin modifications (I tried many skins and am never 100% satisfied, so decided to modify Blue3wide myself), so if I mess up I can easaly resort back to the original.Now the folder size can be big, especially if you got a large collection, as &quot;E:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MediaPortal\thumbs&quot; can be many GBs then, so keep that into consideration. You could even skip those folders and make a smaller backup.The critical thing for you to backup would be: &quot;E:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\database\TVSeriesDatabase4.db3&quot; if you want to do test #4, but you can do all the other tests without any backup (though I'd still suggest one)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RoChess, post: 540605, member: 18896"] Corruption can be big or mild, your clearly got a mild one, since most stuff still functions. And if you make a copy of the database, whatever tests you do, can all be undone by restoring it. Simply make a copy of: "E:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal" *and* "E:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Team MediaPortal" Then do all your testing and once done (and you hopefully found the cause), you delete the contents of those folders and restore the backup. New files might have been created, so a delete+restore is easier. I myself, simply make a copy of the "MediaPortal" sub folder in the forementioned folders. Using your folder structure, I got: E:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\Copy of MediaPortal E:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal (and one for the Data folder) That is just the foldername autogenerated by Windows when you do a CTRL+C and CTRL+V action. The folder for me contains a duplicate before I started making skin modifications (I tried many skins and am never 100% satisfied, so decided to modify Blue3wide myself), so if I mess up I can easaly resort back to the original. Now the folder size can be big, especially if you got a large collection, as "E:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MediaPortal\thumbs" can be many GBs then, so keep that into consideration. You could even skip those folders and make a smaller backup. The critical thing for you to backup would be: "E:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\database\TVSeriesDatabase4.db3" if you want to do test #4, but you can do all the other tests without any backup (though I'd still suggest one) [/QUOTE]

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