Archiving Folder Not Working

[BrettB]

I'm trying to consolidate recordings of some shows on the same drive. But the archive function doesn't seem to be working. I initially tried archiving the folder, and then just an individual recording. Neither worked.

Looking in the log file, I see:

Code:

2020-05-16 09:04:22.866    [DEBUG][23]    ActivatePopup: null
2020-05-16 09:04:22.866    [DEBUG][23]    deactivating old popup: Popup
2020-05-16 09:04:22.866    [DEBUG][23]    Going to dispose popup at end of animation
2020-05-16 09:04:22.866    [DEBUG][23]    Calling dispose on old popup: Popup
2020-05-16 09:04:22.913    [DEBUG][23]    ArchiveRecording(18776:The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, )
2020-05-16 09:04:23.022    [DEBUG][23]    DoCompositeRendering() took 109.1993ms
2020-05-16 09:04:23.069    [DEBUG][23]    Got request [::ffff:192.168.143.26]: /activity
2020-05-16 09:04:23.069    [DEBUG][23]    ClientGetActivity() returning:
{
  "url": "",
  "screen": "Recordings"

}

2020-05-16 09:04:23.069    [DEBUG][23]    Setting activity:
2020-05-16 09:04:23.381    [DEBUG][23]    Got request [::ffff:192.168.143.26]: /activity
2020-05-16 09:04:23.927    [DEBUG][19]    Source File: D:\NPVR Recordings\The Late Show With Stephen Colbert\Season 05\The.Late.Show.With.Stephen.Colbert.S05E47.John.Heilemann;.Alex.Wagner.ts
2020-05-16 09:04:23.927    [ERROR][19]    Unable to find target destination directory:

I specified to archive to the directory labeled Recordings3. I included the config.xml in the logs archive. The directory looks correct and is there.

I'm wondering if the problem is this line:

Code:

2020-05-16 09:04:22.913    [DEBUG][23]    ArchiveRecording(18776:The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, )

Should the specified destination directory be the 2nd parameter to that ArchiveRecording call?

[sub]

Should the specified destination directory be the 2nd parameter to that ArchiveRecording call?

Yes, I'd expect to see the directory identifier listed there.

When you tried the archive feature in nextpvr.exe, you saw the popup, and your different directory identifiers listed, and you chose one?

[BrettB]

Should the specified destination directory be the 2nd parameter to that ArchiveRecording call?

Yes, I'd expect to see the directory identifier listed there.

When you tried the archive feature in nextpvr.exe, you saw the popup, and your different directory identifiers listed, and you chose one?

I was accessing NextPVR via knewc using the remote GUI mode not the NextPVR.exe client image. But, yes, I did get the pop-up and selected the desired destination directory from my list of recording directories.

[sub]

Any difference if you try it in nextpvr.exe itself?

[BrettB]

Any difference if you try it in nextpvr.exe itself?

Just tried that. And it appears to have worked. At least it seems to be moving the first recording now.

I seem to recall someone (Javawiz?) reporting that the Archiving wasn't working in the v5 client a while back. I'm guessing that whatever you had to do to fix it also needs to be done to the remote gui code.

[sub]

If you try archiving again from knewc, does it have the same problem? ie, is it doing this consistently.

[BrettB]

If you try archiving again from knewc, does it have the same problem? ie, is it doing this consistently.

It seems to be consistently not working from knewc. I've tried at both the folder level and the individual recording level and with selecting various destination directories.

[sub]

It's been years since I ever did anything with the archiving, so it's pretty hazy in my memory. Does it support archiving a directory, or is it just individual files?

[BrettB]

It's been years since I ever did anything with the archiving, so it's pretty hazy in my memory. Does it support archiving a directory, or is it just individual files?

You can do individual files from either What's New or the Ready Recordings list. Plus, from the Ready Recordings, if you select a series folder, you can archive all of the recordings in that folder at once.

[sub]

I can't see any obvious reason it might sometimes fail. Do any of your recording directory's have odd names, or punctuation in the name?