I am using Media Center 13.0.123. However the behaviour I am about to describe has been present for some time.
I use a notebook computer. At home it fills the role of Media Center PC. However it is often used away from home in both professional and personal capacities. At home my Media Center library and media files are stored on an external (USB) disk drive. Media Center is the default program for most media files on this system. Consequently, if I open a media file while away from home, MC 13 cannot find my main library and switches to a default library stored on the C drive.
If this library switch occurs (quite frequently) MC 13 seems to loose most (but not all) of the Video file thumbnails. When I reconnect to my main MC Library (USB drive), MC 13 always starts to rebuild thumbnails for over 500 of the 1000+ Video clips stored in the library. This takes quite some time and impacts machine performance until all thumbnails are recreated.
Under Tools / Options / Tree & View / Thumbnails, Thumbnail exit behaviour is set to Leave.
The default library on the C Drive contains an old version of the MC library. There are 977 videos registered in the old C Drive library and 1167 file registered in the main library on the external drive. However over 500 thumbnails are recreated whenever I switch from the default to the main library. Some of the vidoes registered in the old library are no longer present in the main library ( I do not know how many). All of the media files registered in both libraries are only present on the external USB drive and are generally not visible when the default library is activated.
That was a bit long winded
This looks as though MC 13 cannot support multiple libraries with different videos / thumbnails in each library.
Am I missing something? Is there a way to retain these thumbnails between library switches?
Thanks in advance.
MC is my favourite and most frequently used piece of software.