Recording Folders

[pBS]

you don't junction a whole drive, just dirs within your recording dir..then anything recorded to those dirs will go to the other drive..
on my system,i have all recordings that happen same time go to different drives/partitions so i get 0 fragmentation..

so say your main recordings dir is d:\mpg\ and normally when you record a show called 'Monk', it'll get a path of d:\mpg\Monk\
but if you junction d:\mpg\Monk to g:\mpg\Monk, then next recording and all thereafter of series 'Monk' will be recorded to g:\mpg\Monk\ , even tho they will still look like they are in d:\mpg\Monk\ as well..
makin sense now?

if i have 2 recordings at same time, i junction one of them to the other drive ahead of time, and then all future recordings will always be on different drives for those two shows..since they're series, you won't have to do it often..

if you junction your whole recordings dir over to another drive, you'd have to copy everything in it to new location..easier to just adjust npvr recording dir in config...
and everything would go there..so not what you want..

[pBS]

when i get some programmin time i'll update my helper app..it brings up dialog to just pick a show and where to stick it and does the rest for you....
i have to adjust it for the new config.xml and registry changes...[not much]

[pBS]

here ya go...updated ntfs linker helper...it's just a gui for junction.exe from sysinternals really..
just run it and it'll help you link an existing folder in your recordings dir to another drive/dir/system for seamless multi-drive recording

to use: just run it on machine with npvr installed
Upon starting, it checks registry for npvr dir, shows that dir for you to pick an existing dir, or create a new one...
Once you select the dir you want to move, it asks where to..you pick new root dir to place selected show dir in,
then it copies over all files in source dir to linked dir, then makes junction from old dir to new one...

let me know if any issues..
oh yea, must be admin to use..