Media Center deleted all of the files in my library (music, images etc) from my hard drive yesterday. Everything else on my machine is untouched. Needless to say, I'm a little frustrated. Here's how it went down:
I started Media Center 12.0.410, clicked on Audio, selected my entire music library, then went to tools-> advanced tools -> analyze audio. Clicked analyze. I saw that it tool longer to analyze the audio than I had guessed, so I stopped and went back and selected the files from one of my playlists and started to analyze that audio instead. After a few minutes, Media Center started to complain that it couldn't write the information to the tags of the files that it was analyzing. I went to the folder on my hard drive of the song it had just analyzed to check file permissions and saw that my files were disappearing. I went back to Media Center to close it, but by that time, there were so many windows opening reporting errors, that I couldn't close it fast enough. Once my audio library was gone, MC's interface freaked out (replaced all the text on the UI with "playing now") and crashed.
I had to spend $40 on a program to "undelete" my library and was only able to recover part of it. I would really appreciate JRiver doing something to help defray the cost of the software I had to purchase to recover my library. I'm not sure how much I've lost in content, but as an IT professional, I knew that mirrored disks wouldn't protect me from something like this.
Applicable setup information:
Vista Ultimate 64-bit
Media Center 12.0.410 - no plugins, extensions etc.
Intel chip
4GB RAM
Unless something like this happens again, I intend to keep using Media Center--I'll just never analyze audio again.