Traces of old sources causing havok

[minego]

A few days ago I had a hard drive fail. The motor seems to be dying, so it would only spin up every 3 or 4 times. Luckily I was able to get my videos copied onto another drive though.

The new drive is on a different machine, and has a new share name, so I removed the old network source and added a new one. So many of my movies have new paths. For example, "Cars" was previously "smb://UGLY/sliced/Movies/Pixar/Cars (2006).avi" and is now "smb://WHITEICE/amputation/Movies/Pixar/Cars (2006).avi".

The movie works just fine, and shows up correctly in "My Movies", but this movie happens to be one of my son's favorites, so I had added a shortcut for it. The shortcut still references the old path, and shows the new path under "Other Sources".

When I noticed this I removed the shortcut, and added it again hoping it would fix it. The new shortcut does the same thing though.

Aside from removing the "~/Library/Application Support/BOXEE" directory is there any way to correct this? If that much old data is still around maybe I want to start fresh anyway? Any ideas?

[cogadh]

I don't know the answer to your question, but I just had to comment, I love your taste in naming conventions!:D

[minego]

haha thanks

[Kyusaku]

I've had a similar issue where old missing network paths get revived when re-adding the same share. It seems slightly similar to my situation but not really, I'd consider submitting a bug report on Jira, this is my bug report on my problem.
http://jira.boxee.tv/browse/BOXEE-3854

[judgeschambers]

I believe you will need to delete your UserData folder to get rid of the old references. When you restart Boxee you will have to set up your user name / password, and all your shares.

Then once it reindexes, you should not have duplicates.

[Kyusaku]

I believe you will need to delete your UserData folder to get rid of the old references. When you restart Boxee you will have to set up your user name / password, and all your shares.

Then once it reindexes, you should not have duplicates.

Thanks for the tip, I will give it a try. Although I think this issue should be addressed by the developers. When I was testing those Life on Mars filename variations in this thread (http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=13712&highlight=Mars) I ended up just uninstalling Boxee because I couldn't get rid of the dead links.

[judgeschambers]

Thanks for the tip, I will give it a try. Although I think this issue should be addressed by the developers. When I was testing those Life on Mars filename variations in this thread (http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=13712&highlight=Mars) I ended up just uninstalling Boxee because I couldn't get rid of the dead links.


Definately. Being beta, this is how we find out what needs fixed and report it to the devs. I'm adding it to the fix it list right now. ;)
I had a couple today too.

I was just offing a way to fix it in this release. Should work out for ya.

[minego]

Thanks. The issue isn't that hard to work around, so I'll just let it be for now. If it causes any more serious issues I'll delete my UserData directory.

I've entered a bug on jira. Thanks.