Created a new partition on my ssd/system drive for AppData so that my system backups don't have the guide images and other transient app data in them. I had originally moved it to my data/spinning drive but unfortunately that made the guide image fetches pretty slow. Everything worked as expected when AppData was on a folder within the data drive, but images don't seem to appear in the new partition/folder setup so I think it is a wmc permissions issue. I did explicitly grant all rights to all users I could find (including everyone) to the new folder structure and then restarted the PC.
I did rerun epgCollector after changing EPG_data_Dir Env variable and confirmed that MXF file images have correct paths. Have tried rebooting, logging on/off, and restarting WMC.
Does WMC use the logged in user, some special system user, or ???
Any other ideas?
Thanks much!
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OK, before anybody wastes time on this. Noticed in the mxf file the image references get changed to a unc format similar to "file=//f:/appdata/..." I'm not sure if that is a valid unc reference when "f:" is a local drive. Need to do some more testing and research.
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Hoping someone on here might have ideas to try:
Created a new partition on my ssd/system drive for AppData so that my system backups don't have the guide images and other transient app data in them. I had originally moved it to my data/spinning drive but unfortunately that made the guide image fetches pretty slow. Everything worked as expected when AppData was on a folder within the data drive, but images don't seem to appear in the new partition/folder setup so I think it is a wmc permissions issue. I did explicitly grant all rights to all users I could find (including everyone) to the new folder structure and then restarted the PC.
I did rerun epgCollector after changing EPG_data_Dir Env variable and confirmed that MXF file images have correct paths. Have tried rebooting, logging on/off, and restarting WMC.
Does WMC use the logged in user, some special system user, or ???
Any other ideas?
Thanks much!
OK, before anybody wastes time on this. Noticed in the mxf file the image references get changed to a unc format similar to "file=//f:/appdata/..." I'm not sure if that is a valid unc reference when "f:" is a local drive. Need to do some more testing and research.
Last edit: s armstrong 2020-03-18