Sage Recordings Disappeared

[herrdude]

Last weekend, I installed a new hard-drive to have more space for my shows. As I was installing it, I had plugged in my flash-drive at the same time. This set off the lettering for my drives. After the new hard-drive was installed, I went into Sage and changed the recording directories to reflect the changes on my system.

Unfortunately, due to the drive letters changing, a ton of my recordings have disappeared from the Sage Recordings page. For example, I had recorded all of the Hogan's Heroes (80+ episodes). I can find them on my hard-drive with (For example: HogansHeroes-CupidComestoStalag13-5137164-0.mpg) but sage shows none of them.

I have tried the following changes in Sage.properties at different moments

advanced_video_file_recovery=true
repair_mismatched_media_filenames=true

But unfortunately, Sage never recognized them. I would love to get all my videos back into Sage Recordings.

Any ideas what I can do to find video bliss again?

Thanks!

[gplasky]

You could go into Windows and set the flash drive to Z and then set your drives back to the letters they were originally.

Gerry

[herrdude]

I have 4 hard-drives, I hope I can remember the order...

[fidget]

Use UNC paths rather than drive letters. Go into Windows and share the drive. The path to the videos folder will be \\pcname\shared_drive\videos\.

This will solve problems with extenders and clients as well.

[herrdude]

So I went in and shared all four drives. And then I added the first drive according to the UNC address (by putting \\192.168.x.x\d\ : where d is the letter of the shared drive).

The first one worked like a charm.

The other three keep giving me an error message: The directory XYZ does not exits would you like to create it?

I have gone in and removed sharing and put it back but the result is the same. I cannot add the other three drives.

Any ideas why?

[stevech]

Originally Posted by fidget

Use UNC paths rather than drive letters. Go into Windows and share the drive. The path to the videos folder will be \\pcname\shared_drive\videos\.

This will solve problems with extenders and clients as well.

I recall reading that there are issues with Sage and UNC paths, but I can't recall specifics.

[herrdude]

I fixed my problem with the UNC path. If people are having problem with UNC paths in Sage and have XP SP3, they should refer to this link: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/285089/en-us

Sage is currently rebuilding the library we will see if it puts everything back....