NPVR DB question

[saitoh183]

Is v:\ a mapped drive? The recording service is running as a different user account, and wont see any drives you've mapped under your account, so when it loads the recording list it wont be able to find these files and assume you've manually deleted them, and will proceed to delete them from the database.

I know you said you set AutoRemoveMissingRecordings to false, but maybe you needed to restart the recording service after changing that setting before it took effect.

V:\ is a mapped drive and the service is running under the account i use for the windows session. If i import the recordings under, they show up in NPVR but when i start the service(its stopped during the import), they seems to disappear after a few minutes.

[sub]

It may be something like the drive mapping isn't there initially, with the connection taking a while to establish.

I think you should stick with a UNC path instead. Drive mappings are likely to give you problems.

[saitoh183]

It may be something like the drive mapping isn't there initially, with the connection taking a while to establish.

It seems to mess up when i open NEWA. As soon as i browse to it, the Recordings disappear again. Even the NEWA gaget isnt acting right...it shows NA for Free Disk space. Could this be releated with Reven mod? I only installed it didnt change anything else except trying to change the path to my recordings to a map drive.
***Edit: I fixed the NA issue...access denied to System Volume Information folder.

***Edit 2: Yup, every time i start the service and load NEWA Managed recordings, it only shows my 3 local recordings and automatically updates the DB to reflect that and automatically deletes the entries that are pointing to V:\. As long as i dont open NEWA, NPVR keeps the recordings and i can play them no problem.

Also is it normal the my NPVR.log doesnt update when i open NPVR?
Here is my db if it can help

[saitoh183]

Alright,

So NPVR doesnt like mapped drives

Code:

2013-02-24 02:23:29.509    [DEBUG][20]    ArchiveRecording(1296:Les Parent, Archive1)
2013-02-24 02:23:29.552    [DEBUG][18]    Source File: E:\Les Parent\Les Parent_20130218_19302000.ts
2013-02-24 02:23:29.552    [ERROR][18]    Unexpected error archiving file: System.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException: Could not find a part of the path 'V:\Les Parent'.
   at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)

[Graham]

So NPVR doesnt like mapped drives

I have a problem with a network card driver ... I gave up trying to figure out what was going on and now I have a Scheduled Task that runs a batch file after each boot and after each resume from sleep that sleeps for 10 (ish) seconds, deletes the drive mapping, re-maps the drive and then does a DIR on the drive.

[mvallevand]

Alright,

So NPVR doesnt like mapped drives

Code:

2013-02-24 02:23:29.509    [DEBUG][20]    ArchiveRecording(1296:Les Parent, Archive1)
2013-02-24 02:23:29.552    [DEBUG][18]    Source File: E:\Les Parent\Les Parent_20130218_19302000.ts
2013-02-24 02:23:29.552    [ERROR][18]    Unexpected error archiving file: System.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException: Could not find a part of the path 'V:\Les Parent'.
   at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)

NextPVR has no problem with mapped drives, as sub wrote it is a permissions issue for the recording service. I am not sure why you are bothering changing from \\share\name notation to a mapped drive letter.

Martin

[saitoh183]

NextPVR has no problem with mapped drives, as sub wrote it is a permissions issue for the recording service. I am not sure why you are bothering changing from \\share\name notation to a mapped drive letter.

Martin

The services is running with the same account that im logged in with and not with Local system, so i dont understand what could be the problem if it works with UNC. The reason i wanted to switch, was to try out NPVR Web console from Reven because it doesnt support UNC yet.