Clearing/Resetting Media Library

[mlbdude]

I have had this problem. Deleting my wiz.bin was the only way to fix it . If that is a fix.

[Opus4]

How about doing things the other way around... perhaps try renaming the dir where the lib files are so they can't be found & do yet another refresh/restart SageTV.

I would hate to have to delete my wiz.bin & start my history all over again!

- Andy

[pciccone]

Originally Posted by Opus4

How about doing things the other way around...

Did'nt work, took some directories out and left some others to see the results. It doubled the ones I left and did not remove the one's I did not leave.

(Cant remove wiz.bin, would be a bigger loss then the problem at hand now)

If I could send my wiz.bin out to "someone" to clear all imported video, pics and music (but leave the sagetv recorded stuff) I guess that could work.... Can studio handle this?

[that_kid]

Any progress with this issue? I'm having the exact same problem and I would hate to start from scratch again.

[SidKnee]

If you remove the import directory and refresh so that only the non existent files are there, and then try and play one of the files listed doesn't Sage report an error that it can't find the file and then remove it from the list?

I remember something like this happening to me once (only with a single file though).

Hope this helps,
SidKnee

[pciccone]

Originally Posted by that_kid

Any progress with this issue? I'm having the exact same problem and I would hate to start from scratch again.

YES, I did get this resolved. Look at the sage.properties for a "make all file paths local" or something like that.

- Remove your library paths completely
- stop the service (or shutdown)
- edit the sage.prioperties and make this "1" (true)
- start your service

it will auto-set this back to "0" again on your first startup, and should clear out your library. Then you can add the files back in your library and you will be fine.

Hope this helps, it worked for me.

[mike_15]

is this the line in sage.properties you were speaking of?

make_all_mediafiles_local=false

[pciccone]

Originally Posted by mike_15

is this the line in sage.properties you were speaking of?

make_all_mediafiles_local=false

yes, change it to true. On your 1st startup it will go back to false.

[supernoob]

excellent, I can finally make some use of my music library. FWIW I also had to throw in a rescan of my music library in order for it to drop all the bad files after restarting sage. Kinda had me worried when I booted back in and everything was still there.

[pciccone]

Originally Posted by supernoob

excellent, I can finally make some use of my music library. FWIW I also had to throw in a rescan of my music library in order for it to drop all the bad files after restarting sage. Kinda had me worried when I booted back in and everything was still there.

Gotcha, in my case I just waited - it would have worked either way

Glad you are running again!

[that_kid]

Yeah I did the re-scan as well and waited a while and after that everything was all good. Thanks for the help.

[zoso]

Had a similar problem yesterday after moving my installation to a new server. Even though the two media import drives were assigned the same drive letter, I was getting duplicate entries. Removing all the paths from the list would bring it down to single entries, which played just fine. I tried the make_all_mediafiles_local=true fix and it had no effect (and didn't reset to false when I restarted.)

What I finally did that resolved the issue was to comment out the seeker lines in the properties file that corresponded to the valid import file types. Once these were commented out, media lists were immediately emptied. Adding the lines back and then adding my directories then resulted in proper media lists.