2016-08-21, 22:50
Not wanting to disparage what you have said, but looking at the start of this thread 2012, until to-day and noting 'DriveBender is most likely your issue' along with my own experience along with profanations of 'XBMC does not delete files', I'll second that with Kodi does not delete files!
I think I have an open mind, and quite protective of my collection, and sensitive to any hint, that any code could compromise the work and money I have at stake. I treat my collection like my family, and all members need to be accounted for on a daily basis. The Home page of Transparency! shows the count, and I keep track. The nightmare of it all, is that one day some failing hard drive or malicious code, would see my whole family devastated. I've lived through sour drives, bad copy programs, conficker, and failing o/s and hardware. I'm ever vigilant with a mentally of 'if this operation goes sour, what is plan b' and as everyone will tell you, a NAS is not a back-up.
I've had my days, when somehow I've turned on 'un-watched' my library is cut in half... eeps! Or copied a file that wasn't complete or corrupt, but had the correct byte size, or just moved from one folder to the next without deleting the folder extras, that show up as a missing movie, when it's just in another area. I do use Tera-Copy, and discovered that either it, or my system memory has shortcomings, in that at one point shuffling too many files at one time and something runs out of cache memory (if it's move, what disaster, if it's a copy.. it's just a pain) and I end up moving one letter of the alphabet at a time.
I'm still skeptical, that all writes are 100% in the midst of crashes, I've seen too many corrupt thumbnails to believe that. But to-day operating XBMC/Kodi daily since Dharma, I've seen nothing that would put my family at risk.
For those non entrusting souls, Use VLC or MPC to view your videos, and only use Kodi as your library.
I think I have an open mind, and quite protective of my collection, and sensitive to any hint, that any code could compromise the work and money I have at stake. I treat my collection like my family, and all members need to be accounted for on a daily basis. The Home page of Transparency! shows the count, and I keep track. The nightmare of it all, is that one day some failing hard drive or malicious code, would see my whole family devastated. I've lived through sour drives, bad copy programs, conficker, and failing o/s and hardware. I'm ever vigilant with a mentally of 'if this operation goes sour, what is plan b' and as everyone will tell you, a NAS is not a back-up.
I've had my days, when somehow I've turned on 'un-watched' my library is cut in half... eeps! Or copied a file that wasn't complete or corrupt, but had the correct byte size, or just moved from one folder to the next without deleting the folder extras, that show up as a missing movie, when it's just in another area. I do use Tera-Copy, and discovered that either it, or my system memory has shortcomings, in that at one point shuffling too many files at one time and something runs out of cache memory (if it's move, what disaster, if it's a copy.. it's just a pain) and I end up moving one letter of the alphabet at a time.
I'm still skeptical, that all writes are 100% in the midst of crashes, I've seen too many corrupt thumbnails to believe that. But to-day operating XBMC/Kodi daily since Dharma, I've seen nothing that would put my family at risk.
For those non entrusting souls, Use VLC or MPC to view your videos, and only use Kodi as your library.