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Post by Sammy2 » Sun Aug 07, 2016 12:12 pm

First failed run

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[8/5/2016 12:00:04 AM] ===============================================================================
[8/5/2016 12:00:04 AM]  Beginning epg123 update execution.
[8/5/2016 12:00:04 AM] ===============================================================================
[8/5/2016 12:00:06 AM] [ INFO] epg123 version 1.0.0 , DaysToDownload: 30 , PrefixEpisodeTitle: False , AppendEpisodeDesc: True , AutoImport: True , TMDbCoverArt: True , LogoOverride: False , Automatch: True , AutoAddNew: True
[8/5/2016 12:00:08 AM] [ INFO] Successfully retrieved TMDb configurations.
[8/5/2016 12:00:10 AM] [ INFO] Token request successful. serverID: 20141201.web.2
[8/5/2016 12:00:10 AM] [ INFO] epg123 is up to date. version: 1.0.0
[8/5/2016 12:00:10 AM] [ INFO] Successfully requested listing of client lineups from Schedules Direct.
[8/5/2016 12:00:11 AM] [ INFO] Successfully retrieved the station mapping for lineup USA-CA04768-X.
[8/5/2016 12:00:12 AM] Entering getAllScheduleEntryMd5s() for 30 days on 384 stations.
[8/5/2016 12:00:24 AM] [ INFO] Successfully retrieved Md5s for 384 station's daily schedules.
[8/5/2016 12:00:37 AM] [ INFO] Successfully retrieved 384 station's daily schedules.
[8/5/2016 12:00:44 AM] [ERROR] Failed to write Md5Schedule file to cache directory.
[8/5/2016 12:00:44 AM] [ERROR] Unhandled exception caught from main program. message: There is not enough space on the disk.
So I cleaned up some disk space and figured I'd just let it run again.

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[8/6/2016 12:00:00 AM] ===============================================================================
[8/6/2016 12:00:00 AM]  Beginning epg123 update execution.
[8/6/2016 12:00:00 AM] ===============================================================================
[8/6/2016 12:00:00 AM] [ INFO] epg123 version 1.0.0 , DaysToDownload: 30 , PrefixEpisodeTitle: False , AppendEpisodeDesc: True , AutoImport: True , TMDbCoverArt: True , LogoOverride: False , Automatch: True , AutoAddNew: True
[8/6/2016 12:00:02 AM] [ INFO] Successfully retrieved TMDb configurations.
[8/6/2016 12:00:03 AM] [ INFO] Token request successful. serverID: 20141201.web.1
[8/6/2016 12:00:03 AM] [ INFO] epg123 is up to date. version: 1.0.0
[8/6/2016 12:00:03 AM] [ INFO] Successfully requested listing of client lineups from Schedules Direct.
[8/6/2016 12:00:03 AM] [ INFO] Successfully retrieved the station mapping for lineup USA-CA04768-X.
[8/6/2016 12:00:04 AM] Entering getAllScheduleEntryMd5s() for 30 days on 384 stations.
[8/6/2016 12:00:17 AM] [ INFO] Successfully retrieved Md5s for 384 station's daily schedules.
[8/6/2016 12:00:34 AM] [ INFO] Successfully retrieved 384 station's daily schedules.
[8/6/2016 12:00:57 AM] [ERROR] Unhandled exception caught from main program. message: Unterminated string. Expected delimiter: ". Path 'programs[7].educational', line 1, position 4096.
Yesterday afternoon, WMC locked up because I guess trying to record the Olympics was too much. All 6 of my available tuners were gobbled up by this. I rebooted it and had a guide. Three hours later, when watching on an echo extender, after having to restart it, I had no guide data at all so I manually ran epg123:

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[8/6/2016 6:14:20 PM] ===============================================================================
[8/6/2016 6:14:20 PM]  Activating the epg123 configuration GUI.
[8/6/2016 6:14:20 PM] ===============================================================================
[8/6/2016 6:14:20 PM] [ERROR] Unhandled exception caught from main program. message: Could not load file or assembly 'Newtonsoft.Json, Version=8.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=30ad4fe6b2a6aeed' or one of its dependencies. Access is denied.
[8/6/2016 6:14:26 PM] ===============================================================================
[8/6/2016 6:14:26 PM]  Activating the epg123 configuration GUI.
[8/6/2016 6:14:26 PM] ===============================================================================
[8/6/2016 6:14:26 PM] [ERROR] Unhandled exception caught from main program. message: Could not load file or assembly 'Newtonsoft.Json, Version=8.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=30ad4fe6b2a6aeed' or one of its dependencies. Access is denied.
[8/6/2016 6:14:32 PM] ===============================================================================
[8/6/2016 6:14:32 PM]  Activating the epg123 configuration GUI.
[8/6/2016 6:14:32 PM] ===============================================================================
[8/6/2016 6:14:32 PM] [ERROR] Unhandled exception caught from main program. message: Could not load file or assembly 'Newtonsoft.Json, Version=8.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=30ad4fe6b2a6aeed' or one of its dependencies. Access is denied.
[8/6/2016 6:17:29 PM] ===============================================================================
[8/6/2016 6:17:29 PM]  Activating the epg123 configuration GUI.
[8/6/2016 6:17:29 PM] ===============================================================================
[8/6/2016 6:17:29 PM] [ERROR] Unhandled exception caught from main program. message: Could not load file or assembly 'Newtonsoft.Json, Version=8.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=30ad4fe6b2a6aeed' or one of its dependencies. Access is denied.
[8/6/2016 6:19:35 PM] ===============================================================================
[8/6/2016 6:19:35 PM]  Activating the epg123 configuration GUI.
[8/6/2016 6:19:35 PM] ===============================================================================
[8/6/2016 6:19:35 PM] [ERROR] Unhandled exception caught from main program. message: Could not load file or assembly 'Newtonsoft.Json, Version=8.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=30ad4fe6b2a6aeed' or one of its dependencies. Access is denied.
[8/6/2016 6:19:51 PM] ===============================================================================
[8/6/2016 6:19:51 PM]  Activating the epg123 configuration GUI.
[8/6/2016 6:19:51 PM] ===============================================================================
[8/6/2016 6:19:51 PM] [ERROR] Unhandled exception caught from main program. message: Could not load file or assembly 'Newtonsoft.Json, Version=8.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=30ad4fe6b2a6aeed' or one of its dependencies. Access is denied.
Not wanting to spend Saturday night messing with it, we carried about our evening which included a nice BBQ and dinner by the pool..

This morning I tried again only to still have issues with Newtonsoft.json.dll:

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[8/7/2016 12:00:01 AM] ===============================================================================
[8/7/2016 12:00:01 AM]  Beginning epg123 update execution.
[8/7/2016 12:00:01 AM] ===============================================================================
[8/7/2016 12:00:01 AM] [ INFO] epg123 version 1.0.0 , DaysToDownload: 30 , PrefixEpisodeTitle: False , AppendEpisodeDesc: True , AutoImport: True , TMDbCoverArt: True , LogoOverride: False , Automatch: True , AutoAddNew: True
[8/7/2016 12:00:02 AM] [ INFO] Successfully retrieved TMDb configurations.
[8/7/2016 12:00:03 AM] [ INFO] Token request successful. serverID: 20141201.web.2
[8/7/2016 12:00:03 AM] [ INFO] epg123 is up to date. version: 1.0.0
[8/7/2016 12:00:03 AM] [ INFO] Successfully requested listing of client lineups from Schedules Direct.
[8/7/2016 12:00:04 AM] [ INFO] Successfully retrieved the station mapping for lineup USA-CA04768-X.
[8/7/2016 12:00:04 AM] Entering getAllScheduleEntryMd5s() for 30 days on 384 stations.
[8/7/2016 12:00:16 AM] [ INFO] Successfully retrieved Md5s for 384 station's daily schedules.
[8/7/2016 12:00:24 AM] [ INFO] Successfully retrieved 384 station's daily schedules.
[8/7/2016 12:00:28 AM] [ERROR] Failed to write Md5Schedule file to cache directory.
[8/7/2016 12:00:28 AM] [ERROR] Unhandled exception caught from main program. message: There is not enough space on the disk.

[8/7/2016 4:17:16 AM] ===============================================================================
[8/7/2016 4:17:16 AM]  Activating the epg123 configuration GUI.
[8/7/2016 4:17:16 AM] ===============================================================================
[8/7/2016 4:17:17 AM] [ INFO] epg123 is up to date. version: 1.0.0
[8/7/2016 4:17:22 AM] [ INFO] Token request successful. serverID: 20141201.web.2
[8/7/2016 4:17:22 AM] [ INFO] Status request successful. account expires: 2017-03-24T11:39:31Z , lineups: 1/4 , lastDataUpdate: 2016-08-07T04:26:01Z
[8/7/2016 4:17:22 AM] [ INFO] system status: Online , message: No known issues.
[8/7/2016 4:17:22 AM] [ INFO] Successfully requested listing of client lineups from Schedules Direct.
[8/7/2016 4:17:23 AM] [ INFO] Successfully retrieved the station mapping for lineup USA-CA04768-X.
[8/7/2016 4:17:24 AM] [ INFO] Successfully queried the Task Scheduler for status. status: Ready. Last Run 8/6/2016 11:59:59 PM; Exit: 0xE0434352
[8/7/2016 4:17:32 AM] ===============================================================================
[8/7/2016 4:17:32 AM]  Beginning epg123 update execution.
[8/7/2016 4:17:32 AM] ===============================================================================
[8/7/2016 4:17:32 AM] [ INFO] epg123 version 1.0.0 , DaysToDownload: 30 , PrefixEpisodeTitle: False , AppendEpisodeDesc: True , AutoImport: True , TMDbCoverArt: True , LogoOverride: False , Automatch: True , AutoAddNew: True
[8/7/2016 4:17:32 AM] [ INFO] Successfully retrieved TMDb configurations.
[8/7/2016 4:17:33 AM] [ INFO] Token request successful. serverID: 20141201.web.1
[8/7/2016 4:17:34 AM] [ INFO] epg123 is up to date. version: 1.0.0
[8/7/2016 4:17:35 AM] [ INFO] Successfully requested listing of client lineups from Schedules Direct.
[8/7/2016 4:17:35 AM] [ INFO] Successfully retrieved the station mapping for lineup USA-CA04768-X.
[8/7/2016 4:17:36 AM] Entering getAllScheduleEntryMd5s() for 30 days on 384 stations.
[8/7/2016 4:17:45 AM] [ INFO] Successfully retrieved Md5s for 384 station's daily schedules.
[8/7/2016 4:17:51 AM] [ INFO] Successfully retrieved 349 station's daily schedules.
[8/7/2016 4:17:55 AM] [ERROR] Failed to write Md5Schedule file to cache directory.
[8/7/2016 4:17:55 AM] [ERROR] Unhandled exception caught from main program. message: There is not enough space on the disk.

Now I have been fighting this low disk space issue for some time now on my 240 GB SSD, so I cleared some more space (When I go through the disk, I don't see where everything that is taking space is located so I'm puzzled on that one)

Anyhow, I ran again with about 250MB free disk space and got this:

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[8/7/2016 4:49:29 AM] ===============================================================================
[8/7/2016 4:49:29 AM]  Activating the epg123 configuration GUI.
[8/7/2016 4:49:29 AM] ===============================================================================
[8/7/2016 4:49:29 AM] [ INFO] epg123 is up to date. version: 1.0.0
[8/7/2016 4:49:32 AM] [ INFO] Token request successful. serverID: 20141201.web.2
[8/7/2016 4:49:32 AM] [ INFO] Status request successful. account expires: 2017-03-24T11:39:31Z , lineups: 1/4 , lastDataUpdate: 2016-08-07T04:26:01Z
[8/7/2016 4:49:32 AM] [ INFO] system status: Online , message: No known issues.
[8/7/2016 4:49:32 AM] [ INFO] Successfully requested listing of client lineups from Schedules Direct.
[8/7/2016 4:49:32 AM] [ INFO] Successfully retrieved the station mapping for lineup USA-CA04768-X.
[8/7/2016 4:49:33 AM] [ INFO] Successfully queried the Task Scheduler for status. status: Ready. Last Run 8/6/2016 11:59:59 PM; Exit: 0xE0434352
[8/7/2016 4:49:49 AM] ===============================================================================
[8/7/2016 4:49:49 AM]  Beginning epg123 update execution.
[8/7/2016 4:49:49 AM] ===============================================================================
[8/7/2016 4:49:49 AM] [ INFO] epg123 version 1.0.0 , DaysToDownload: 30 , PrefixEpisodeTitle: True , AppendEpisodeDesc: True , AutoImport: True , TMDbCoverArt: True , LogoOverride: False , Automatch: True , AutoAddNew: True
[8/7/2016 4:49:49 AM] [ INFO] Successfully retrieved TMDb configurations.
[8/7/2016 4:49:50 AM] [ INFO] Token request successful. serverID: 20141201.web.1
[8/7/2016 4:49:50 AM] [ INFO] epg123 is up to date. version: 1.0.0
[8/7/2016 4:49:50 AM] [ INFO] Successfully requested listing of client lineups from Schedules Direct.
[8/7/2016 4:49:50 AM] [ INFO] Successfully retrieved the station mapping for lineup USA-CA04768-X.
[8/7/2016 4:49:51 AM] Entering getAllScheduleEntryMd5s() for 30 days on 384 stations.
[8/7/2016 4:49:59 AM] [ INFO] Successfully retrieved Md5s for 384 station's daily schedules.
[8/7/2016 4:50:02 AM] [ INFO] Successfully retrieved 154 station's daily schedules.
[8/7/2016 4:50:05 AM] [ERROR] Unhandled exception caught from main program. message: Unterminated string. Expected delimiter: ". Path 'programs[7].educational', line 1, position 4096.
[8/7/2016 4:51:43 AM] ===============================================================================
[8/7/2016 4:51:43 AM]  Activating the epg123 configuration GUI.
[8/7/2016 4:51:43 AM] ===============================================================================
[8/7/2016 4:51:43 AM] [ INFO] epg123 is up to date. version: 1.0.0
[8/7/2016 4:51:46 AM] [ INFO] Token request successful. serverID: 20141201.web.2
[8/7/2016 4:51:46 AM] [ INFO] Status request successful. account expires: 2017-03-24T11:39:31Z , lineups: 1/4 , lastDataUpdate: 2016-08-07T04:26:01Z
[8/7/2016 4:51:46 AM] [ INFO] system status: Online , message: No known issues.
[8/7/2016 4:51:46 AM] [ INFO] Successfully requested listing of client lineups from Schedules Direct.
[8/7/2016 4:51:46 AM] [ INFO] Successfully retrieved the station mapping for lineup USA-CA04768-X.
[8/7/2016 4:51:47 AM] [ INFO] Successfully queried the Task Scheduler for status. status: Ready. Last Run 8/6/2016 11:59:59 PM; Exit: 0xE0434352
[8/7/2016 4:51:51 AM] ===============================================================================
[8/7/2016 4:51:51 AM]  Beginning epg123 update execution.
[8/7/2016 4:51:51 AM] ===============================================================================
[8/7/2016 4:51:51 AM] [ INFO] epg123 version 1.0.0 , DaysToDownload: 30 , PrefixEpisodeTitle: True , AppendEpisodeDesc: True , AutoImport: True , TMDbCoverArt: True , LogoOverride: False , Automatch: True , AutoAddNew: True
[8/7/2016 4:51:51 AM] [ INFO] Successfully retrieved TMDb configurations.
[8/7/2016 4:51:51 AM] [ INFO] Token request successful. serverID: 20141201.web.2
[8/7/2016 4:51:51 AM] [ INFO] epg123 is up to date. version: 1.0.0
[8/7/2016 4:51:52 AM] [ INFO] Successfully requested listing of client lineups from Schedules Direct.
[8/7/2016 4:51:52 AM] [ INFO] Successfully retrieved the station mapping for lineup USA-CA04768-X.
[8/7/2016 4:51:52 AM] Entering getAllScheduleEntryMd5s() for 30 days on 384 stations.
[8/7/2016 4:51:59 AM] [ INFO] Successfully retrieved Md5s for 384 station's daily schedules.
[8/7/2016 4:52:02 AM] [ERROR] Unhandled exception caught from main program. message: Unterminated string. Expected delimiter: ". Path 'programs[7].educational', line 1, position 4096.
[8/7/2016 4:56:16 AM] ===============================================================================
[8/7/2016 4:56:16 AM]  Activating the epg123 configuration GUI.
[8/7/2016 4:56:16 AM] ===============================================================================
[8/7/2016 4:56:17 AM] [ INFO] epg123 is up to date. version: 1.0.0
[8/7/2016 4:56:19 AM] [ INFO] Token request successful. serverID: 20141201.web.1
[8/7/2016 4:56:19 AM] [ INFO] Status request successful. account expires: 2017-03-24T11:39:31Z , lineups: 1/4 , lastDataUpdate: 2016-08-07T04:26:01Z
[8/7/2016 4:56:19 AM] [ INFO] system status: Online , message: No known issues.
[8/7/2016 4:56:19 AM] [ INFO] Successfully requested listing of client lineups from Schedules Direct.
[8/7/2016 4:56:20 AM] [ INFO] Successfully retrieved the station mapping for lineup USA-CA04768-X.
[8/7/2016 4:56:20 AM] [ INFO] Successfully queried the Task Scheduler for status. status: Ready. Last Run 8/6/2016 11:59:59 PM; Exit: 0xE0434352
[8/7/2016 4:56:28 AM] ===============================================================================
[8/7/2016 4:56:28 AM]  Beginning epg123 update execution.
[8/7/2016 4:56:28 AM] ===============================================================================
[8/7/2016 4:56:28 AM] [ INFO] epg123 version 1.0.0 , DaysToDownload: 30 , PrefixEpisodeTitle: True , AppendEpisodeDesc: True , AutoImport: True , TMDbCoverArt: True , LogoOverride: False , Automatch: True , AutoAddNew: True
[8/7/2016 4:56:28 AM] [ INFO] Successfully retrieved TMDb configurations.
[8/7/2016 4:56:28 AM] [ INFO] Token request successful. serverID: 20141201.web.1
[8/7/2016 4:56:28 AM] [ INFO] epg123 is up to date. version: 1.0.0
[8/7/2016 4:56:28 AM] [ INFO] Successfully requested listing of client lineups from Schedules Direct.
[8/7/2016 4:56:29 AM] [ INFO] Successfully retrieved the station mapping for lineup USA-CA04768-X.
[8/7/2016 4:56:29 AM] Entering getAllScheduleEntryMd5s() for 30 days on 384 stations.
[8/7/2016 4:56:38 AM] [ INFO] Successfully retrieved Md5s for 384 station's daily schedules.
[8/7/2016 4:56:39 AM] [ERROR] Unhandled exception caught from main program. message: Unterminated string. Expected delimiter: ". Path 'programs[7].educational', line 1, position 4096.
In between one of those runs I even downloaded a fresh 7Zip of epg123 and snagged that copy of Newtonsoft.json.dll and put in C:/epg123.. I'm all out of ideas here.

HELP! I have no guide data right now. This isn't a problem for me as I'd just live with it until I got it sorted out but the family, especially my wife, is going to go biserk! I mean one day of this and I'll be paying $80 something a month to rent crappy not whole home DVR's from Charter or looking at TiVo. SERIOUSLY!!

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Post by Sammy2 » Sun Aug 07, 2016 12:58 pm

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Problem signature:
  Problem Event Name:	CLR20r3
  Problem Signature 01:	epg123.exe
  Problem Signature 02:	1.0.0.0
  Problem Signature 03:	578bb5e6
  Problem Signature 04:	Newtonsoft.Json
  Problem Signature 05:	8.0.2.19309
  Problem Signature 06:	56905929
  Problem Signature 07:	ce
  Problem Signature 08:	0
  Problem Signature 09:	Newtonsoft.Json.JsonReader
  OS Version:	6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
  Locale ID:	1033
  Additional Information 1:	b551
  Additional Information 2:	b551220a6326ea6c1a4ca06e98ebaf6e
  Additional Information 3:	29ba
  Additional Information 4:	29ba1d994d9c4f420a52531cab0917bb
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Post by mldenison » Sun Aug 07, 2016 1:00 pm

Do you have another HD installed? I have SSD's installed on my 3 PC's that I have - 2 standalone WMC machines and 1 HTPC. I keep all the SSD's pretty well cleaned up. All bloat folders I have are relocated on to another HD - documents, downloads, pictures, videos and recorded TV. My SSD's have around 100GB on them. I suspect disk space is your problem.

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Post by Sammy2 » Sun Aug 07, 2016 1:34 pm

mldenison wrote:Do you have another HD installed? I have SSD's installed on my 3 PC's that I have - 2 standalone WMC machines and 1 HTPC. I keep all the SSD's pretty well cleaned up. All bloat folders I have are relocated on to another HD - documents, downloads, pictures, videos and recorded TV. My SSD's have around 100GB on them. I suspect disk space is your problem.
Yes. I have a 4 TB recording drive. I've been trying to figure out what is hogging up my SSD and what I can move off of it without causing issues.. There's some 20GB in the main (i5HTPC) user so I know I can clean some stuff up there, just trying to figure out what stuff but even then, somewhere lies excess bloat and I've looked and looked but am not seeing it. I have "Show Hidden Files" checked, BTW, so I should be seeing everything on my SSD, no?

EDIT: I do have close to a GB free on the C:\ drive so I think that should be enough for epg123 to run.

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Post by mldenison » Sun Aug 07, 2016 2:07 pm

That should be enough space one would think although my SDD's never get below, say, 50GB free.

You might want to look at TreeSize. It reports the sizes of all folders and shows the largest to smallest folders:

http://www.jam-software.de/treesize_free/?language=EN

I got an expired certificate error just now on their site, but that's where I grabbed the program some time ago.

Maybe Garyan can shed some light on it.

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Post by Sammy2 » Sun Aug 07, 2016 2:18 pm

I grabbed the latest Newtonsoft.json.dll from June and that wouldn't let epg123 GUI load, so I rolled back. The error continues. Yesterday, I even downloaded epg123 agian in hopes of having it correct itself with a fresh epg123.exe but no luck with that either.

Thanks for that tip on treesize.. There was 132 GB of crap in the Windows/temp folder!!!

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Post by Sammy2 » Sun Aug 07, 2016 2:20 pm

Nevertheless, epg123 is still failing with the same errors.

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Post by mldenison » Sun Aug 07, 2016 2:41 pm

What version of Windows just out of curiosity?

Here's another program, AutoDelete, for you then. It watches, on startup, any folders you specify and deletes any files - with conditions. I have it set to delete in my various temp folders any files over 1 day old.

http://cyber-d.blogspot.com/2005/10/cyb ... e-101.html

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Post by garyan2 » Sun Aug 07, 2016 3:10 pm

Your initial failure of low disk space created the second failure which is a 0-byte length file in your cache. I would suggest clearing the cache and trying again.

Sorry, this had happened once in the past and I guess I didn't put the file length check in prevent this.
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Post by Ladislaus » Sun Aug 07, 2016 4:58 pm

Sounds like v1.0.1 is coming soon.

:D

[ @garyan2: Thanks for all of your hard work. ]

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Post by garyan2 » Sun Aug 07, 2016 5:33 pm

Maybe next week. I'm elbow deep into revamping the tracing code to also include writing to the Media Center Event Log. So looks like the next version will have a fix for 0-byte length cache files, add logging to the event log, correct SDOverride functionality, ...
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Post by Sammy2 » Sun Aug 07, 2016 8:12 pm

There was 65k items in my epg123 cache so it took a while to clear and rebuild data for 43k plus programs

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Post by Sammy2 » Mon Aug 08, 2016 11:36 am

I didn't get to finish my post.. It took about 8 minutes and then failed at the re-index task.. So I ran it again and had success. Last night's scheduled run was fine too. One thing in all this I also lost all my tuners and even had to re-run Tuner Salad to go from 4 to 6. EPG123 automatch put all the channels back into the default Charter numbering but I restored them from a Guide Tool Back up.

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Post by Sammy2 » Mon Aug 08, 2016 1:42 pm

garyan2 wrote:Maybe next week. I'm elbow deep into revamping the tracing code to also include writing to the Media Center Event Log. So looks like the next version will have a fix for 0-byte length cache files, add logging to the event log, correct SDOverride functionality, ...
SWEET!

I didn't know this was an issue until this past weekend but thank you for your quick response that enabled me to keep WMC for a little while longer!!

Keep up the good work, Gary! We sure do appreciate it. I guess it is time to donate a little bit more to the 31 Flavors Fund!

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Post by Sammy2 » Mon Aug 08, 2016 1:50 pm

mldenison wrote:What version of Windows just out of curiosity?

Here's another program, AutoDelete, for you then. It watches, on startup, any folders you specify and deletes any files - with conditions. I have it set to delete in my various temp folders any files over 1 day old.

http://cyber-d.blogspot.com/2005/10/cyb ... e-101.html
Great tip again! Thanks so much for this information. I've been struggling with WMC saying Disk Full and not even playing LiveTV for a couple of weeks or more. My recording drive has lots of space on it so I knew it was the boot drive but I could not seem to find where it was so full. Now everything is running real nicely. what I'd like to do is just stop the temp folder from getting so full in the first place. I'm not even sure what those files were to tell you the truth as they were just called things like cab_12540_2 etc..

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Post by Sammy2 » Thu Aug 11, 2016 11:18 pm

Three days of great runs and no "Out of Disk Space" errors to boot.. Thanks again mldenison for the tip on clearing out all that garbage and to Gary for his quick assessment of the issue and providing a great and viable solution!!

EPG123 ftw!!

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