Sage stopped playing imported media from network share

[Rurik]

Then if a mod wouldn't mind, could you move this post into a new thread in SageTV Software? I may have to try and create another account to see if that fixes the problem.

topic: Sage stopped playing imported media from network share (I read FAQs and searched)

On my Sage box (6.1.8 with Java 1.6u1), I recently mapped a network share that contained all of my MP3 and music videos. I added it as an import directory in Sage, and all the files were immediately picked up on and found. The music played, and the files viewed fine. Until later, when I rebooted, when I could no longer play them.

The share was mounted to a drive letter, and mounted as a particular user account "user" that exists on both computers. The SageTVService is set to start under user "user". But, still no go. I can see the files in Sage, and I can even browse through the directories, but as soon as I play a file I get an Error (-2): Files selected for playback are no longer on disk.


I can view the details for each, and though some show up as 0MB, others show up fine:


If I try to play videos, I get the error -2. If I try to play audio, nothing happens. No play "bar" appears at the bottom of the screen, but the song does end up in the "Now Playing" playlist.

Any ideas?

[Opus4]

Originally Posted by Rurik

On my Sage box (6.1.8 with Java 1.6u1), I recently mapped a network share that contained all of my MP3 and music videos.

Services can't access mapped drive letters. If you want to use service mode with network paths, you'll have to use UNC paths. See the bottom of p. 15 in the v6.1 PDF manual.

Switch back to non-service mode, change to a UNC path and map that drive letter to an empty directory so that the imported media is not seen in its old location & will then be imported from the 'new' UNC path.

- Andy

[Rurik]

Thank you, Andy. That resolved the issue. I must've overlooked that detail. Thank you for being patient with newbies such as I. I just wish I knew why I couldn't post new threads in that forum.