2016-03-16, 06:24 AM
I had setup NPVR to record while I was away, and set all the programs to record and all that, and then, I noticed I didn't have much room left on the recording drive.
So, went to the shop and got a new HD, and hot swapped it and did a format & assigned it the same drive letter as before.
Well, seems NPVR didn't like this, since it instead recorded all the shows to the SSD instead of the recording directory I told it while I was away.
Sure enough, when I got back, looked at the HD, and saw nothing new, puzzled, looked in event viewer and saw drive out of space errors, so I look at the SSD, and found some of the recordings, then I look at the NPVR settings and my old drive setting was there, however, there was a default above that set to the SSD drive.
Ack!
So, yeah, ran out of space on the SSD.
Now, since explorer and all other programs could access the new HD, why did NPVR instead chose to add the default drive recording location again, instead of using the preferred device I had specified?
In the logs, I just see
day before
after...
Nothing in the logs about the change back to the SSD (c:\) drive, it just started using it.
So, went to the shop and got a new HD, and hot swapped it and did a format & assigned it the same drive letter as before.
Well, seems NPVR didn't like this, since it instead recorded all the shows to the SSD instead of the recording directory I told it while I was away.
Sure enough, when I got back, looked at the HD, and saw nothing new, puzzled, looked in event viewer and saw drive out of space errors, so I look at the SSD, and found some of the recordings, then I look at the NPVR settings and my old drive setting was there, however, there was a default above that set to the SSD drive.
Ack!
So, yeah, ran out of space on the SSD.

Now, since explorer and all other programs could access the new HD, why did NPVR instead chose to add the default drive recording location again, instead of using the preferred device I had specified?
In the logs, I just see
day before
Code:
[DEBUG][9] DefaultDirectoryChoice: first
[DEBUG][9] allocating recording target filename: J:\tvtvtvtv\...
Code:
[DEBUG][9] DefaultDirectoryChoice: first
[DEBUG][9] allocating recording target filename: C:\Users\Public\Videos\...
Nothing in the logs about the change back to the SSD (c:\) drive, it just started using it.