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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: parkdog on September 10, 2004, 01:23:59 am

Title: Problem Creating Output Directory
Post by: parkdog on September 10, 2004, 01:23:59 am

All of a sudden MC tells me it can't create an Output Directory when I try and rip a disc. I checked in Options and the directory is correct. The HD has plenty of space. I used EAC to rip the disc to the same HD and no problems.

This is the first time I have encountered this problem since I started ripping my collection (about 50 discs so far).

I have restarted the computer several times. Has something become corrupted within MC?

Title: Re:Problem Creating Output Directory
Post by: Michel Lefebvre on September 10, 2004, 05:36:50 am

Check to see if the directory structure created by MC (C:/path.../Artist/Album/File Name) is not too long. Windows has a limit to how many characters you can use. In this "pre-coffee, early morning mode" I forget how many characyers the limit is...

Mihel

Title: Re:Problem Creating Output Directory
Post by: parkdog on September 10, 2004, 11:24:37 am

I have tried changing all the directories, no results.

File/folder naming structure hasn't changed, I ripped about 50 discs prior to this problem

I can access the drive and create folders no problem.

Using EAC to rip to the directory, then importing media/properties from file names as a work around right now, not as convenient for sure.

MC recently crashed (hung the computer, had to do a hard restart) could something have gotten corrupted?

Title: Re:Problem Creating Output Directory
Post by: Bobnoznothing on September 10, 2004, 01:00:40 pm

I just had the same problem this morning.
It turned out that MC was creating a subdirectory with the album name and the album in question had "..." (3 dots) in it. That must cause a conflict in windows. I replaced the 3 dots with an underscore (doing a tag edit of the album name) and it worked.

Check for non-alphanumeric characters in artist or album name.

Title: Re:Problem Creating Output Directory
Post by: Matt on September 10, 2004, 02:29:32 pm

We can't reproduce this.

Could you give the exact artist, album, base path, and output rules.

Also, does it matter what encoder you use?

Thanks.

Title: Re:Problem Creating Output Directory
Post by: JohnT on September 10, 2004, 02:52:35 pm

Try the next build. Directories with three or more dots in the name could not be created by Media Center. Are there other cases that were causing problems?