2006-01-11, 10:40 PM
This is not a complaint/rant/moan, just a concern. I finished watching a downloaded xVid this eneving and was randomly flicking through folders containing my video files when I noticed that my "Recorded TV" folder was emtpy. This folder had contained about 20 *.mpg files that had been converted from MCE2005 DVR-MS files over the course of the last year or so.
I immediately fired up Winternals FileRestore and luckily managed to salvage about 80% of the files as my H:\ isn't used for much else other than video storage so the data hadn't been properly overwritten.
In FileRestore the deletion date/time for every recoding was exactly the same - 07/01/06 19:26. When I informed the Mrs of this she accessed that part of the female brain that stores these things and said "We were watching season 2 of lost on your streamy box thing, that night it kept freezing".
What she meant, of course, was that we were watching lost (xVid) on the MVP using GB-PVR and it happened to be giving me a whole load of shlt due to me trying to fast-forward back to the bit where it had frozen up.
I have checked my GBPVR.exe log files, but as my luck would typically have it, the very furthest they go back is about 20 mins after doomsday. In the GBPVR configuration utility I noticed that my "Recordings Directory" was set to H:\Recorded TV. This was done when I very first installed it, not knowing I wouldn't be using for any recording, just playback.
Is it possible that GB-PVR nuked its "Recordings Directory" due to some sort of 'episode' when that xVid file killed it? I find it more than a little suspicious that the deltetion occured while using GB-PVR and on a night when it was mis-behaving. I have changed the "Recordings Directory" to something else now as a precaution but hope that reporting this will mean the bug is squished before anyone else loses any files.
Just to re-iterate, I am not moaning or trying to place blame anywhere, I love GB-PVR and appreciate all the hard work that sub has put into it.
Cheers.
I immediately fired up Winternals FileRestore and luckily managed to salvage about 80% of the files as my H:\ isn't used for much else other than video storage so the data hadn't been properly overwritten.
In FileRestore the deletion date/time for every recoding was exactly the same - 07/01/06 19:26. When I informed the Mrs of this she accessed that part of the female brain that stores these things and said "We were watching season 2 of lost on your streamy box thing, that night it kept freezing".
What she meant, of course, was that we were watching lost (xVid) on the MVP using GB-PVR and it happened to be giving me a whole load of shlt due to me trying to fast-forward back to the bit where it had frozen up.
I have checked my GBPVR.exe log files, but as my luck would typically have it, the very furthest they go back is about 20 mins after doomsday. In the GBPVR configuration utility I noticed that my "Recordings Directory" was set to H:\Recorded TV. This was done when I very first installed it, not knowing I wouldn't be using for any recording, just playback.
Is it possible that GB-PVR nuked its "Recordings Directory" due to some sort of 'episode' when that xVid file killed it? I find it more than a little suspicious that the deltetion occured while using GB-PVR and on a night when it was mis-behaving. I have changed the "Recordings Directory" to something else now as a precaution but hope that reporting this will mean the bug is squished before anyone else loses any files.
Just to re-iterate, I am not moaning or trying to place blame anywhere, I love GB-PVR and appreciate all the hard work that sub has put into it.
Cheers.
