Had my Topfield 2 weeks now, and just installed MyStuff 4.54e. I thought the original UI was pretty good until I saw this! . Control timers are a killer feature, and really release the power of the box. There are many smaller features I like too, particularly the way you can resume viewing your last viewed recording by pressing the slow key. And the way MyStuff deals with padding and back to back recordings is very slick. Well done to Bob and the team, I say.

I guess this has been mentioned before, though I could not find it with a search: If you create your 'My Favourites.mcl' file on a Linux box, don't forget to convert it to Dos/Windows text, otherwise you will see some very odd behaviour in the EPG. I am running Linux and using puppy for transfers. I coverted this piece of perl: s/\n/\r\n/;

I think it's been mentioned before... Similarly, I copied a small section out of the Eurovision Song Contest (the hilarious Finnish winning entry ) so I could delete the main file. MS reported the resulting file as 'News Today' or something similar, which happened to be on at the time I made the copy. The Toppy archive reported it correctly as a Eurovision copy.

Repeated crash in MS archive view

I moved the most recent files into a subdirectory -- still crashed
I moved about 10 episodes of Scrubs into a sub dir -- still crashed
I moved 4 of the oldest files into a subdir -- no crash
I navigated into the oldest files subdir -- no crash
I moved the files back out of the subdir (in native mode) -- still no crash

Is there any more diagnostics I can do?
This sounds similar to the crashes Bob was investigating with Juwlz

I am keen to help gather more info if it will help.

The only thing we seem to have established so far is that once you make the problem go away, you can't get it to come back again

So, if you (or anyone else) sees the problem again, please
1. back up your MEI directory (in ProgramFiles) and
2. contact BobD for a diagnostic version of MyStuff which will put messages on the screen about what's happening INSTEAD of moving files around to see what makes it go away.

Julie

Hi Mike

Oh well, keep an eye on this and if you can make it do it again then please do as juwlz says, and let me know (by posting here, by PM or by email) and then we can try to debug it. I am really keen to work out what is going on here, since it does seem to keep happening!

Cheers

Try deleting the Freeview.mei file that eit2mei creates and let it build it again. I've had that problem and deleting the file has corrected it.

Hi guys,
I have been trying to get MS to crash again for over an hour.
I have been moving files, deleting stuff, creating directories, setting up new timers & CTs & deleting them again, turning them on & off and I have not had anything even slightly odd happen.

Hmm. Tried that but memory has been draining away all evening with all my usual TAPs installed and then again with only Tap Commander, MyStuff and eit2mei.

Anyone else getting this? Anyone with any more ideas on what might be causing it?

The only change here is that I've left the Toppy on 24/7 recently rather than putting it into standby overnight.

Hmm. Tried that but memory has been draining away all evening with all my usual TAPs installed and then again with only Tap Commander, MyStuff and eit2mei.

Anyone else getting this? Anyone with any more ideas on what might be causing it?

The only change here is that I've left the Toppy on 24/7 recently rather than putting it into standby overnight.

Hi

I'm new to MS - brilliant TAP, but I have a problem renaming files.

As far as I can tell it is not possible to rename files in MS Archive. So I went into the Toppy archive and renamed a file; but the Ms archive file name did not change. Tried again with a different file and it worked: the MS archive file name had changed. This is the only time that I succeeded; all subsequent attempts to change file names in MS archive failed.

What am I doing wrong? Help please.

Thanks in anticipation

Baj