2012-03-21, 18:09
Finally got my purpose built HTPC up and running, unfortunately I've run into a few problems with the Video database.
After reading about Shadow Defender on the forum I decided I would give the trial a go as a means of protecting my hard work!
I started off with the latest version, and put my HDD into Shadow Mode after I'd configured everything to my liking. I set exclusions for the XBMC userdata folder and for the XBMC installation folder, I rebooted to test, and everything remained the same - perfect! After an evening of viewing with no hitches, I shut it down - no crashes or anything like that.
Next day when I started it up the first thing I noticed was that Windows disk check ran on start up, then once XBMC had started it was obvious the skin had reverted to Confluence and all of my guisettings had been lost too. Now as for the databases I was able to browse Music and Movies without a hitch but if you try to do the same for TV Shows it tried to launch Videos in Library Mode but no data was showing at all.
I deleted the Videos database, re-scanned all my media and restored all my settings and everything seemed to be working again. I also took a database backup this time... just in case!
Now I've had this situation repeat itself perhaps five or six times in the space of a couple of days. In that time I've tried two different (older) versions of Shadow Defender though this doesn't seem to have changed the behaviour at all.
Yesterday I decided to uninstall Shadow Defender and test my setup without it. Unfortunately I booted up this morning to find another disk check, corrupted database, skin reverted to confluence and all guisettings lost.
I've checked my eventlog but nothing is showing up in there, I've also done plenty of searching the forums but I cannot seem to find anyone with the same problem as me
Anybody have any ideas as to what may be causing this?
Should also mention I'm running Windows 7 x64 SP1 with XBMC 10.1
AMD A6-3500
ASRock A75M-ITX
4GB Memory
I'm still trying to retrieve a debug log when this occurs.... as soon as I get my hands on one I will post it
After reading about Shadow Defender on the forum I decided I would give the trial a go as a means of protecting my hard work!
I started off with the latest version, and put my HDD into Shadow Mode after I'd configured everything to my liking. I set exclusions for the XBMC userdata folder and for the XBMC installation folder, I rebooted to test, and everything remained the same - perfect! After an evening of viewing with no hitches, I shut it down - no crashes or anything like that.
Next day when I started it up the first thing I noticed was that Windows disk check ran on start up, then once XBMC had started it was obvious the skin had reverted to Confluence and all of my guisettings had been lost too. Now as for the databases I was able to browse Music and Movies without a hitch but if you try to do the same for TV Shows it tried to launch Videos in Library Mode but no data was showing at all.
I deleted the Videos database, re-scanned all my media and restored all my settings and everything seemed to be working again. I also took a database backup this time... just in case!
Now I've had this situation repeat itself perhaps five or six times in the space of a couple of days. In that time I've tried two different (older) versions of Shadow Defender though this doesn't seem to have changed the behaviour at all.
Yesterday I decided to uninstall Shadow Defender and test my setup without it. Unfortunately I booted up this morning to find another disk check, corrupted database, skin reverted to confluence and all guisettings lost.
I've checked my eventlog but nothing is showing up in there, I've also done plenty of searching the forums but I cannot seem to find anyone with the same problem as me
Anybody have any ideas as to what may be causing this?
Should also mention I'm running Windows 7 x64 SP1 with XBMC 10.1
AMD A6-3500
ASRock A75M-ITX
4GB Memory
I'm still trying to retrieve a debug log when this occurs.... as soon as I get my hands on one I will post it