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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: wayne on April 08, 2005, 09:46:03 pm
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opened mc to media library and cannot access any songs get error [unable to play any files in play list]
there is a gray box with small red box inside it beside all songs in all playlists except photo collection which is ok
2000+ songs are missing
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This has happened to me.... I got MC to "find" the music again by clicking on a few different headings in the tree (i.e. video, playing now, etc.) and then clicking back to media library.
It has only happened maybe 3 times... but it sure is scary when it does.... because in my case it showed 6000 empty locations. Yikes!
I will also note that this only happened to me on builds in the 11.0.22* series. It hasn't happened so far with anything 230 and up.
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so wayne what version of MC are you using?
Did you move or rename the media files using another program or windows explorer?
if you did that's why mc can't find them.
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This happened to me once when an external hard drive got unplugged or turned off... sounds obvious, I know, but you'd be surprised how long it took to recognized that!!
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If your files are stored on a external drive, don't forget that plugin another one can cause windows to change the drives letters.
Look the filenames MC has for your files and check that there are correct.
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Another reason this happens, at least to me, is I have my music files on a network drive. For some reason at various times when I start MC, usually after a fresh reboot, it won't find the files and that holds true for some other apps too. I have to go to Windows Explorer, click on the network drive to get connected again, and then after restarting MC will work fine.
Most times whatever application I'm using I guess does an automatic reconnect to the network drive without me having to this workaround. Sure wish I could figure out how to have the system always do it. Note I am not talking about mapping and reconnecting a network drive, they are all always permanently mapped. It's just they don't become active until you try using them.
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dcwebman,
You could add a .bat file like this to your startup items:
dir [your first network drive path]
dir [your second network drive path]
etc...
It would make sure that your network drives are accessed once and thus connected after each reboot.
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dcwebman,
You could add a .bat file like this to your startup items:
dir [your first network drive path]
dir [your second network drive path]
etc...
It would make sure that your network drives are accessed once and thus connected after each reboot.
You could also just use 'D:' which would change to the networked drive. Saves the listing of the directory.
But I wonder why 'Reconnect at logon' option for mapped drives is not working?
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You could also just use 'D:' which would change to the networked drive. Saves the listing of the directory.
But I wonder why 'Reconnect at logon' option for mapped drives is not working?
Good ideas about the bat. The reconnect at logon is working because they are still mapped. They just don't become active until you actually use them.
Jeff