So... I'm really not sure what is going on, but something is fishy with newly imported files and the Auto-Sync changes with server client-side option of the Library Server. This happened twice to me. Note: I was using "older" builds (the HTPC was on 132 until tonight), but I didn't see anything directly related in the change log, so I wanted to report it.
Incident One:Over the weekend, I set up our new
Eye-Fi SD card. Fricking sweet, by the way. Works great with MC!
Anyhow, I took two pictures with the good-old Rebel, and walked downstairs to the Server machine to check if they'd imported. They had. I said "awesome" and went upstairs to show my wife how it worked.
I opened MC on the HTPC (it was closed at the time). I pulled up my Photos view and there they were at the top of the view (my Photos view sorts the newest pictures to the top). Okay, cool.
Then, I took a few more pictures and went back to the HTPC. I switched to a different view and waited a little while to give it a chance to sync (switching back every so often) and then I noticed something...
Not only had my new pictures not shown up, suddenly the two that were already there (the ones I'd already seen) had vanished from the view. They just weren't there. Anywhere in the library (not under New Imports, or in my Photos View, or whatever). Wha?!?
I raced downstairs to check to see if the files were in MC down there, and were still on disk. Now, note: I do NOT have MC set to remove broken links, so even if they'd been deleted, I still should have seen the "missing" record in MC on the HTPC. But the files were still there on disk, including the new one. They were not showing in MC on the server either, though.
I ran Auto-Import Now, and MC found them, imported them, and they popped back up in the list where they belonged. Okay, that was odd, but there they are. They haven't vanished again, they're still in MC now. Subsequent tests of the Eye-Fi didn't cause it to happen again.
Incident Two:Last night after my wife went to bed, I came back downstairs to the living room and loaded up that night's episode of The Daily Show (which had finished recording 10-15 minutes earlier). I watched about 1/2 of the episode, pausing here and there to get a drink or listen for the baby crying (in my head) and whatnot. MC had probably been running for at least 30 minutes at that point, if not much longer (I can't remember if it was left open when I put my wife/daughter to bed or not).
But then, literally mid-playback (not while resuming from a pause or anything), right in the middle of a segment of the episode, MC stopped playing the file and moved on to the next item in the Playing Now list. Incidentally, this was some other show because I'd started playback from my New Shows view, which again sorts the newest files to the top (no idea if that's relevant, it just happened to be true both times).
I assumed immediately that my recording was broken and that the rest was missing. It seemed as though it had just ended abruptly.
So I immediately stopped playback and went back to my New Video view (in Theater View this time). The file was gone from the view. All the other stuff was there, but that one was gone. I switched to my regular Series view and navigated to find all the episodes of The Daily Show. Yep, gone.
So, this time I checked from there on disk. Yep, file sitting right there happily in the T:\recordings directory. Now, I'm sorry, but I can't remember for sure what happened next. I'd planned to go back downstairs again, but I never got there, and the file "re-appeared". I might have, but I'm not sure, closed and re-opened MC on the HTPC.
In any case, that's two examples of newly imported files going all sideways and being removed from MC (once, while it was in-use) for seemingly no reason. I got no error, and again, I don't have MC set to remove broken links, so the files shouldn't ever remove unless I delete them manually.
I'm not sure what the heck was happening, but it was disconcerting.