Changing driveletter for optical drives can cause movie deletion

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Changing the driveletter for optical drives in the OS will cause the 
hidden import path for the old driveletter to be removed when the plugin 
is restarted. All movies linked to this import path will in turn be 
deleted.

also see:
http://forum.team-mediaportal.com/moving-pictures-284/database-lost-my-
imported-blu-rays-66689/#post476068

Original issue reported on code.google.com by apond...@gmail.com on 29 Jun 2009 at 2:13

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Hi

Just wanted to add a comment to this issue:

I upgraded from 0.7.5 to MP 1.0 Beta 2. I have an external DVD Drive only used 
for
cataloging my DVD's on the shelve.

When this drive is not connected MP will delete all my offline DVD's, but not my
Blu-Ray's. Further, when the drive is not connected MP will also reindex all 
movies
stored on my NAS, resulting in double entries (movies on my NAS had allready 
been
index once by MP 0.7.5). Movies on m NAS are all DVD's.

The reason for bringing this up is because 'i seem to remember you had closed 
the
"reindex, double entry" issue?

With the drive connected everything is ok, and MP will not reindex.

Original comment by Antimo...@gmail.com on 2 Jan 2010 at 10:28

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Original comment by apond...@gmail.com on 15 Feb 2010 at 5:13

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I think all optical drives should be reflected as just one internal import 
path. 
We can still store the drive letter in the localmedia object on import but 
having 
this import path will then signal the system to check on the fly what the 
actual 
driveletter is to determine whether the media is online/offline. This way we 
prevent 
the deletion and have support for multiple optical drives and not pin the user 
to a 
specific drive to use when wanting to play a disc.

Original comment by apond...@gmail.com on 17 Mar 2010 at 11:10

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I don't know if this one is connected, but I imported couple of DVDs from my 
DVD-RW 
drive (E:\) and then installed Daemon Tools for ISOs. After I got the virtual 
drive 
enabled, all my imported DVDs were gone.

I then removed the virtual drive and re-imported the DVDs back through DVD-RW 
E:\. 
Was working okay, but the other day the movies disappeared again. When I 
checked the 
log, it said something about E:\ being identified as a virtual drive and that 
the 
movies will be deleted (I have the log on my HTPC and can upload it, if 
needed). It 
happened every time I restored the database from backup and relaunched 
MediaPortal.

When I put a DVD in the drive and tried to import it through the Moving 
Pictures 
GUI, it did not show up at all. So I checked the video/music/picture import 
folders 
in MediaPortal config and removed the now obsolete virtual drive (which was 
still in 
the list, even though I already disabled it in Daemon Tools). After that, the 
movies 
stopped disappearing (once restored from backup).

Original comment by miro...@gmail.com on 29 Mar 2010 at 12:10

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