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Media Center remembering

Jul 18, 2010 3:25AM PDT

Using Media Center to save movies. As time progresses, movies I have saved are removed from the "storage" partition.
Media Center is remembering my selections, and re-marking these prior movies to be re-saved. How do I stop this?

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Sounds buggy.
Jul 21, 2010 12:21AM PDT

There is that setting in some media center (you may want to state author, version, etc.) software that you have to check all settings to make sure it is not moving files.

Then we have subscription content that has limited life spans. Those are supposed to vanish. Nothing wrong about that.
Bob

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Your assumption does not hold water
Jul 23, 2010 9:45AM PDT

I am manually moving the completed videos (after creating the DVD) to another drive. The completed video is no longer on the assigned "Storage" partition. What is happening is that ONCE selected for recording, the program remembers it FOREVER. Three weeks or three monthes later, it records the same single movie. I do not record weekly series programming.
As the numer of recorded DVD's increases, I am now forced to double-check against a database program to weed out the duplicates.

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Tell more.
Jul 23, 2010 9:56AM PDT

Because the details are not here. There are common reasons why Windows Media Player loses things. I noted a few but if thinking out loud and being wrong is not acceptable please write that so others know the rules.
Bob

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tell more
Jul 24, 2010 1:16AM PDT

Exact sequence of events:
(1) Select a movie to record. Media Center saves selection, date, time, channel to it's internal database. (exact name of this file unknown).
(2) The movie is recorded onto Storage Drive E:
(3) Make the DVD, and remove the movie from Storage Drive E:
(4) Next time the same movie appears on the Media Center Guide, it automatically selects the movie to be recorded, again. Weeks later.

I hope this explanation meets requirements.

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Not my requirements.
Jul 24, 2010 1:24AM PDT

I was writing to hear your requirements. I know Windows Media Player has bugs. Witness http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itproSP/thread/95012d6a-583c-43bf-bf9f-813f5cfd4baa and there are plenty more. As this is all volunteer I would have to do more work to see if this is a new bug. But it sounds so much like the other problem I have with WMP. My fix is unacceptable to some. (I don't use WMP anymore.)

If you find a bug, there is only one thing to do. Report it and hope in the next year they fix it.

-> Worth noting are those that can't believe this thing has bugs. Yup, it does.
Bob