Steps to move to new PC

mvallevand · Yesterday, 09:38 PM

Archive isn't automatic.

Documentation is a user responsibility and no one has stepped up since Graham gave us a the fantastic start. The feature was lightly document in v4 https://web.archive.org/web/201701261604...rdingpopup but it changed in v6 as on option under manage on the hidden menu screen in recordings.

Feel free to submit documentation updates for this feature and I will put it on the wiki.

Martin

Ricknextpvr · Yesterday, 11:08 PM

I had no idea there was a hidden menu...

Ricknextpvr · 5 hours ago

My familiarity with NextPVR is nowhere good enough to write documentation. I can understand users creating documentation as features are added and the basic tenents are there, but how does a user even know how to use a feature without documentation? To be honest, I find that out by doing a Google search, which often results in reading a post with the name "Martin" on it... Smile

I guess I wouldn't call Manage a hidden menu. I knew it was there but had no idea that Archive would move a program from one drive to another AND make it accessible from within NextPVR. To me, archive means pit it in a place where you cannot easily access it again without jumping through hoops. I figured adding another recording directory might be the way, but have no idea what it does.

Of course I had no idea where the default location was. But I searched and found it, M drive root directory. Now have to figure out where to change that.

mvallevand

Sorry I forgot. Archive is on the hidden menu (home key) and also on the Manage pop up. I use the hidden menu force of habit.

Martin

bgowland · 3 hours ago

(Yesterday, 09:38 PM)mvallevand Wrote: Archive isn't automatic.

Documentation is a user responsibility and no one has stepped up since Graham gave us a the fantastic start. The feature was lightly document in v4 https://web.archive.org/web/201701261604...rdingpopup but it changed in v6 as on option under manage on the hidden menu screen in recordings.

Feel free to submit documentation updates for this feature and I will put it on the wiki.

Martin

Ooh that's a useful thing to know Martin. I'm almost happy with my new machine but I deliberately added in a SATA HDD specifically for long term (archiving) some recordings and I haven't explored this yet. I'll try it out and try to document my experience.

Cheers,
Brian