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<blockquote data-quote="dir" data-source="post: 945776" data-attributes="member: 24485">I can try vacuuming and re-indexing but I only just created it a few hours ago and have been importing new episodes since the initial import in a steady trickle since then, so I can only hope that these tasks aren't necessary for such a new system.&nbsp;I have tried using different views - on my main htpc I use the favourites view most of the time, which only shows 20 or so series. Normally I use the &quot;most recently added&quot; view, then switch to the 'All' view if I want to drill into a specific series quickly.&nbsp;I was thinking that a way around the lack of my media library would be to work out a way to create a duplicate set of media files that have the same file characteristics but none of the file size - clone the episode's file attributes etc. but none of the 'weight', thus ending up with 24,400 almost-real files. Then I could zip up the entire 'TV' folder, and this could then be used on another system to duplicate the crashes. [Update: Found it: within Powershell: robocopy TV TV_Empty /E /SEC /CREATE , which copied 10,000+ files of 10TB into an exact duplicate folder that takes up 56KB! Go me. I've zipped this &quot;TV_Empty&quot; directory and attached it. Rename it to &quot;TV&quot; when you unzip it.&nbsp;To set up an environment that can duplicate the problem, I'll do the following:&nbsp;- Use VMWare to create a totally new Windows 7 PC (Windows 7 Pro 64-bit)- Install latest W7 patches or service packs- Install MP 1.3b + TVSeries- create a &quot;c:\audio video media&quot; directory- unzip the TV_Empty zip into this directory and rename it to 'TV'- run TVSeries importer- run MP and leave it- occasionally stick a new episode in one of the directories to emulate adding new shows.&nbsp;I'll report back how that goes.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="dir, post: 945776, member: 24485"] I can try vacuuming and re-indexing but I only just created it a few hours ago and have been importing new episodes since the initial import in a steady trickle since then, so I can only hope that these tasks aren't necessary for such a new system. I have tried using different views - on my main htpc I use the favourites view most of the time, which only shows 20 or so series. Normally I use the "most recently added" view, then switch to the 'All' view if I want to drill into a specific series quickly. I was thinking that a way around the lack of my media library would be to work out a way to create a duplicate set of media files that have the same file characteristics but none of the file size - clone the episode's file attributes etc. but none of the 'weight', thus ending up with 24,400 almost-real files. Then I could zip up the entire 'TV' folder, and this could then be used on another system to duplicate the crashes. [Update: Found it: within Powershell: robocopy TV TV_Empty /E /SEC /CREATE , which copied 10,000+ files of 10TB into an exact duplicate folder that takes up 56KB! Go me. I've zipped this "TV_Empty" directory and attached it. Rename it to "TV" when you unzip it. To set up an environment that can duplicate the problem, I'll do the following: - Use VMWare to create a totally new Windows 7 PC (Windows 7 Pro 64-bit) - Install latest W7 patches or service packs - Install MP 1.3b + TVSeries - create a "c:\audio video media" directory - unzip the TV_Empty zip into this directory and rename it to 'TV' - run TVSeries importer - run MP and leave it - occasionally stick a new episode in one of the directories to emulate adding new shows. I'll report back how that goes. [/QUOTE]

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