Profiler is initializing.... xx% Done

[Red Barchetta]

I'm an old ver 6 user. I just replaced my HD, installed Win 7 Ultimate, and STV7. I copied over my Wiz.Bin from my old drive and all my video's. Now, when ever I start STV7 up, it starts this Profiler message at the bottom of the splash screen. When it gets to 100% (after several minutes), it sits there for about a minute more. Why does it do this with every start?

[robogeek]

SageTV is probably busy processing files or doing database maintenance on startup. There is a property you can set in the sage.properties file that should allow the UI to get started faster. With SageTV shutdown, open the sage.properties file and look for:

limited_carny_init=

and if it is set to false, change it to true so it looks like:

limited_carny_init=true

If it's already set ot true, something else is probably going on and you could enable the SageTV debug logging in the Setup->Detail Setup->Advanced menu to see what SageTV is doing during startup.

[Red Barchetta]

Thanks robogeek, but I got frustrated last night and blew the whole thing out and reinstalled from scratch. Got it all up and running again, set my video drive where all my old video's are, and set the advanced_system_file_recovery to true. Is this the right setting to import the old recordings? Its not working. Ok, I can live with out that. I thought everything was going well but when I shut down, set the value back to false, and restarted, STV7 suddenly decides that its not going to record anything, even though my favorites list has 67 entries, and there is lots for it to record. Then, to top it off, if I tell it to watch live TV, it will play for 5 minutes, and then jump out to the TV menu. I've tested it over and over, 5 minutes each time. I'm almost ready to go back and install my STV6 again..

[Red Barchetta]

Ok, blew it all out again last night and built it again. This time, its all working great. Have not tried to import my old video's yet.

[robogeek]

I'll preface this information with a recommendation to make a backup of your SageTV directory and make backups of any SageTV related files you change or copy over that aren't in the SageTV directory. Then if anything goes wrong and things are made much worse, you can shutdown SageTV, copy everything back, and everything will go back to the way it was.

For old recordings, if your current recording directory configuration is the same as it was in SageTV v6, you should be able to shutdown SageTV and copy the v6 wiz.bin to the SageTV directory and the files should just show up in the recordings list when you restart SageTV. If you are running Vista or Windows 7 with UAC, you may have to find the location of the actual wiz.bin file that SageTV is using and copy your old wiz.bin over to that directory...I can't remember if SageTV uses the UAC Virtual Store location for the wiz.bin.

For any recordings that are still orphaned and showing in the imported video list, you have some options:

1. If you copied over the old wiz.bin to the new installation and some of the recordings still won't show in the recording list, you can try the advanced video file recovery detailed in a FAQ message post somewhere around the message board here. This will not work on a clean install with a new wiz.bin file.

2. You can use the BMT Web UI plugin to browse these orhpaned recording files in a web browser and mark them as recordings.

3. I think the SageTV Web Interface plugin alows you to import files as recordings, but I've never done that so I don't have any details on how.

Good luck.

[Red Barchetta]

I installed all this on a completely new drive, so I have my old ver 6 I can just put back into the box and run it, but it was also getting slow starting up, and kept having random lockup errors on that version. And when I kept reinstalling, my blowing it out also consisted of making backups in different folders. I'd try restoring the wiz.bin file after a re-install and get mostly the same results. So I kept leaving it behind and building from scratch. Guessing there must be something wrong with my wiz.bin file. Installed STV7 4 times till I have a fairly solid version. I say fairly as I was just watching a movie it recorded and windows suddenly popped up a box that sagtv.exe had stopped responding, and I could search for a solution or close it. I closed it and re-started. All is well again. Before install, I created a path on my Win7 Ultimate box to c:\sagetv7\, then edited the rights for all users, administrators, etc to full read/write, then installed.

I used one of the plug-in's that allows me to browse the folders, and I can see, and play all my old recordings. That takes care of that.

[basset]

Hi,

I've been having the same issue. I upgraded to windows 7 home and from SageTV 6 to 7. When starting SageTV it takes awfully lang to get through the "Profiler initializing ..." stage ... it loads way slower than 7 did. I was also watching a recorded show (3rd or so time this has happened) when windows said that sagetv.exe stopped responding and I had to restart.

Any solutions to this ... I also have a lot of my old recordings that didn't show up as recording but ended up being under the video files. Maybe that could be it ? I'll search for the advanced recovery FAQ mentioned here.