Archive issue

[artmetz]

When I archive a group instead of an individual recording, sometimes one or more of the recordings go missing.
From the client (NLite in this example) in the Ready Recordings list, I filter on Local recordings (my filter), then choose a group/folder and select Archive from the menu, then the target folder on my NAS. In this example "Late Night With Seth Meyers" is the group.
The files all show up in the target folder:
"P:\videos\tv\Late Night With Seth Meyers\Season 13\Late.Night.With.Seth.Meyers.S13E74.Cillian.Murphy;.Maggie.Gyllenhaal.ts"
"P:\videos\tv\Late Night With Seth Meyers\Season 13\Late.Night.With.Seth.Meyers.S13E74.Cillian.Murphy;.Maggie.Gyllenhaal.edl"
"P:\videos\tv\Late Night With Seth Meyers\Season 13\Late.Night.With.Seth.Meyers.S13E75.Nicolle.Wallace;.Rebecca.Ferguson;.Joe.Santagato;.Frank.Alvarez.ts"
"P:\videos\tv\Late Night With Seth Meyers\Season 13\Late.Night.With.Seth.Meyers.S13E75.Nicolle.Wallace;.Rebecca.Ferguson;.Joe.Santagato;.Frank.Alvarez.edl"
"P:\videos\tv\Late Night With Seth Meyers\Season 13\Late.Night.With.Seth.Meyers.S13E76.Kurt.Russell;.Marc.Jacobs;.Sofia.Coppola.ts"
"P:\videos\tv\Late Night With Seth Meyers\Season 13\Late.Night.With.Seth.Meyers.S13E76.Kurt.Russell;.Marc.Jacobs;.Sofia.Coppola.edl"
"P:\videos\tv\Late Night With Seth Meyers\Season 13\Late.Night.With.Seth.Meyers.S13E77.Kristin.Chenoweth;.Tom.Blyth.ts"
"P:\videos\tv\Late Night With Seth Meyers\Season 13\Late.Night.With.Seth.Meyers.S13E77.Kristin.Chenoweth;.Tom.Blyth.edl"

But only 2 files now show up for the group in the NPVR client and only those 2 are in the database. (I'm using a recording-backup.xml to verify)
<filename>\\NAS0324\Public\videos\tv\Late Night With Seth Meyers\Season 13\Late.Night.With.Seth.Meyers.S13E74.Cillian.Murphy;.Maggie.Gyllenhaal.ts</filename><filename>\\NAS0324\Public\videos\tv\Late Night With Seth Meyers\Season 13\Late.Night.With.Seth.Meyers.S13E75.Nicolle.Wallace;.Rebecca.Ferguson;.Joe.Santagato;.Frank.Alvarez.ts</filename>

In a nutshell, the file is being moved, but the entry in the database is being deleted rather than updated.
D:\nextpvr\Late Night With Seth Meyers\Season 13\Late.Night.With.Seth.Meyers.S13E76.Kurt.Russell;.Marc.Jacobs;.Sofia.Coppola.ts

I do have AutoRemoveMissingRecordings set to true, so maybe LoadList is causing the database entry to be removed before it has been updated?
<AutoRemoveMissingRecordings>true</AutoRemoveMissingRecordings>

2026-03-13 11:48:15.644 [DEBUG][37] LoadList@0
2026-03-13 11:48:15.654 [DEBUG][37] LoadList@1
2026-03-13 11:48:57.484 [DEBUG][34] Also moving: D:\nextpvr\Late Night With Seth Meyers\Season 13\Late.Night.With.Seth.Meyers.S13E76.Kurt.Russell;.Marc.Jacobs;.Sofia.Coppola.edl
2026-03-13 11:48:58.138 [DEBUG][37] Deleting non-existant recording D:\nextpvr\Late Night With Seth Meyers\Season 13\Late.Night.With.Seth.Meyers.S13E76.Kurt.Russell;.Marc.Jacobs;.Sofia.Coppola.ts

Art

[mvallevand]

Your snippet shows what happened there are two threads in play 34 an 37 You were doing things on two machine while that archive was taking place.

In one you stopped video

2026-03-13 11:48:15.556 [DEBUG][37] - media: stop

Which triggered the reload of the database and the remove because of the missing file check

Similarly you deleted a record

2026-03-13 11:49:15.071 [DEBUG][114] DeleteRecording(480118)

The process is fragile because the database doesn't have a state for archiving and there is a kind of Schrödinger's Cat here the file is in two places but neither are valid. I suggest if you do this often to turn off the auto delete. sub could look at manually turning it off during archiving but it might not b worth it.

Martin