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RandyKC

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    I reported this problem a few weeks back. Haven't seen it for a while, but now it's back.

    I have 2 500Gb external USB drives connected to 2 different Windows XP systems on the home network. Both of these drives are configured in MovingPictures to use as media storage. I think what happens is when I use one of the computers after they have been idle overnight, I see a hard MediaPortal windows crash on the HTPC system running MediaPortal. I started this thread in the general problems forum on the issue which includes logs.

    https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/...-crashing-system-formatexception-error-56854/

    Is there any kind of settings I have to make in Moving Pictures for these drives? I recall in earlier versions, there was a flag to set to define removable drives but with the latest builds the flags are no longer needed. Would I have to have any settings on the USB drives for MovingPictures - say enable write access, or no sleep settings? Don't know what else to try.
     

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    Last week I deleted the MP 0.7.2 database, rolled back to MP 0.6.6, re-entered my external USB drives that contained all of my movie .iso files, checked the box to reflect that they were removable, and re-imported my movies. Been running all week without 1 crash.

    Does anyone else have a similar configuration as mine with Western Digital external USB drives running on a networked computer mapped as a shared drive on the HTPC machine? I get crashes daily with 0.7.2 for some reason.
     

    RandyKC

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    This has got to be related to the enhanced external media changes in the 0.7.x builds.

    My MediaPortal PC has no local movies on it. All of the movies are stored as .sio files in 3 places on other PC's on the same network. On 1 of the networked computers, I have movies on its local hard drive. On the same pc, I have a 500GB USB drive with movies on it. On a third PC, I have more movies on another external USB drive.

    With Moving Pictures setup to only monitor the movies on the networked hard drive, it's been running all week with no issues. I checked it every night. Last night, I added one of the networked USB drives and let it sit overnight. I went to start a movie today, and got the MediaPortal error that I've been experiencing as soon as I started to play the movie. If I roll back to 0.6.6 and check the checkbox identifying the USB drives as removable, it will run with no problems. Is anyone else running with a similar configuration? If anyone is using a USB drive, are they local to the MediaPortal machine? I am running out of variables to debug.
     

    armandp

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    the filesystemwatcher logic (the part where the plugin detects new movies etc..) has been improved but somehow it is triggering on system folder (which are only in the root of the drives) probably having something to do with these weird crashes. I will look into this.

    edit: our log writer is causing the error (in repsonse to an unexpected situation on the filesystem) - will fix

    as a workaround - if possible - you should put your movies in a dedicated subfolder (not a root folder) to see if will still crash
     

    RandyKC

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    Indeed all of my movies are in the root folder of the drives. I will move them to a directory and retest for the crash and post the results.

    Thanks much for the debugging.
     

    armandp

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    If it's not a problem to move the movies out of the root directory i would recommend it.. it will speed up moving pictures if the folder you are watching does not contain other non-movie related files/folders. If you have no root folders as watched folders you should be fine. Even if the root only contains movies there will be hidden system folders on there that trigger logic that is unnecesary (until we fix it). Meanwhile i've reproduced and tracked it down, so it will be fixed in 0.8 ;)
     

    RandyKC

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    That's great news and thanks. I'm just glad to identify what it was in my system configuration was causing the crash so I can work around it.

    I moved my movies off of the root on one of the usb drives and rescanned with Moving Pictures. Will let it run for a while and report the results. :D
     

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