You'll find that those programs you can see in the standard Toppy Archive (Press Archive key twice) but not in the MyStuff Archive, are probably corrupted. Either zero MB or zero minutes or both.

These files can be deleted from the Toppy Archive view (Or with Altair).

Files that are xxMB/GB but zero minutes can be recovered with the RecFixer TAP.

Files that are zero MB/GB cannot be recovered since there's nothing there to recover.

Might just be worth trying to see why these files are being corrupted though. Usually caused by the Toppy crashing during a recording.

Can MyStuff do anything with the live buffer?
...if it can, would it be possible to add some 'disable buffer recording' options.

Reason is that we have the Toppy in the bedroom and when the buffering is on, the HDD clicks away, loudly enough to keep me awake! So I switched it off, only for SWMBO to complain because she likes to use it when watching QVC!

So, some possible options:

1 Turn off at time (e.g. 11pm)
2 Turn on at time (e.g. 7am)
or maybe
Turn off when recording

or can anyone else think of a better arrangement?

ta

You'll find that those programs you can see in the standard Toppy Archive (Press Archive key twice) but not in the MyStuff Archive, are probably corrupted. Either zero MB or zero minutes or both.

These files can be deleted from the Toppy Archive view (Or with Altair).

Files that are xxMB/GB but zero minutes can be recovered with the RecFixer TAP.

Files that are zero MB/GB cannot be recovered since there's nothing there to recover.

Might just be worth trying to see why these files are being corrupted though. Usually caused by the Toppy crashing during a recording.

(would be nice to be able to edit the description as well, but heyho)K

Hi,

Can MyStuff create a control timer from a previous recording?

If not, is there any chance of it in a future release?

i.e. go into archive, select a recording, press... something, and the toppy switches to guide and the create search panel pops up, with some fields filled from the recording.


Cheers,

Hali.

Simon's TFRecEdit will allow editing of the description if you transfer the programme to a PC.

I'll give it a go, thanks. I note that the routine requires .NET, does that come with XP SP2? ...

oh! Just had my first Toppy crash. Was using MyStuff at the time, but that might be a coincidence. The crash was preceded by some oddness

...Just had another crash, if anyone is interested, and I now think I know what was common between the two.

In both cases, I had the list of timers on-screen, and a current recording was just about to finish (recording). Since it was still recording, that current event appeared in the main top-level folder, even though I have autofile turned on.

Whilst I was still moving around the various timer screens, the recording finished, and was then auto-filed to the correct folder. However, I still had it on-screen in the top-level folder, and then found, again, that I could see it in the new folder, and still see it in the top-level folder. Accessing one of these, to play, again caused the Toppy to crash.

Following file recovery, everything seems to be correct: the recording is now only visible in the autofiled folder.

Is this a known issue? If not, would a new Bug help? If anyone wants further testing, I'd be happy to try things...

Or isn't this the right place?

Hi,

Can MyStuff create a control timer from a previous recording?

If not, is there any chance of it in a future release?

i.e. go into archive, select a recording, press... something, and the toppy switches to guide and the create search panel pops up, with some fields filled from the recording.


Cheers,

Hali.

...Can MyStuff do anything with the live buffer?
...if it can, would it be possible to add some 'disable buffer recording' options.

Reason is that we have the Toppy in the bedroom and when the buffering is on, the HDD clicks away, loudly enough to keep me awake! So I switched it off, only for SWMBO to complain because she likes to use it when watching QVC!

So, some possible options:

1 Turn off at time (e.g. 11pm)
2 Turn on at time (e.g. 7am)
or maybe
Turn off when recording

or can anyone else think of a better arrangement?

ta