TheGreenButton - Windows Media Center Forums

I don't think there is a flag. The recovery only happens when you first open WMC after whatever happens. As far as I can tell, if you have WMC closed for 20 days through 4 garbage cleanups, it works fine until you open WMC and at which point it sees something it doesn't like and triggers a recovery.

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In my experience, if Media Center is already open, it will continue to work perfectly fine until you close and re-open. There must be something which it only checks on launch. Perhaps a checksum in the database which is not being updated correctly. It pops up instantly and so it does not appear to be running a full integrity check at that point.

Just thought I should feedback that I have been running with Garbage Collection enabled for the past few weeks and it has now run successfully five times without triggering a database rebuild. Hopefully this means my fears were unfounded and regular maintenance is keeping things in check.

All the work I've been doing on the client points to your fears not being unfounded. I think there is a possibility that by looking at, and monitoring any recordings in progress prior to gc/import can increase the likelihood of a bad experience if something goes wrong with the garbage collection. I'm probably going to change how the client does that by looking at a recording task and a registry entry to determine if a recording is in progress and when the next recording is. That way I won't touch the database prior to the gc/import and avoid the risk.

This will mean that there won't be any log entries identifying what is being recorded, but I can live with that if it makes everything more stable.

Good to know. I actually have my gc/import scheduled during the early hours, well away from any recordings.

I’ve just had a database recovery

I think my last one was 14 months ago and so not bad going. I made quite a few guide edits at the beginning of the month following some channel renumbering by the broadcaster and I can’t help but think the two are linked.