by suzukiginsu » Sun Sep 09, 2012 3:13 pm
Lowlander,
This is a rebuilt OS install - I formatted the drives etc. All external devices that were plugged into the system when my guest (10 yr. old nephew with a penchant for online web games) did his magic, or one of those sites did it's magic. I've loaded the bare minimum of what's needed at this time - MS Office, Avast! Antivirus, Adobe bits and bobs, and of course Firefox. There isn't a whole lot of stuff to really lead to driver issues etc. I had a lot more stuff loaded on this system before the events that lead to the reload, and no issues, but I was running a 3.x version of MediaMonkey at that time. At any rate, I'm going to run through the debug steps because it doesn't matter if I'm Local Admin or a standard user.
I'm dealing with a Quad Core, 2.33 GHz system, with 8 GB of RAM, two 1TB SATA drives in a RAID1 config.
To address Technojnky's comment - I understand the comments re locked files etc. (I'm a UN*X admin by training, with a strong background in SAN/NAS types of storage) The reason for the shared location is so that all of the systems in the house access the one DB, and consequently, one set of playlists. As part of my testing for this, however, as you've suggested, I had removed the MediaMonkey.ini file that was setup to use the UNC paths to the network share, and the problem persists, so I think, other than the music's on the network, I'm good from a file open/close/read/write performance perspective.
I'm no fan of Windows, as I find troubleshooting with it to be more arcane art than science compared to the many flavours of UN*X I've worked with. If there was a version of MediaMonkey that was LINUX based, I'd be building a custom system for just that purpose - some of the low power micro and pico ATX systems really appeal to the builder in me.
Thank you both for your comments, I suspect I've got a new issue of some sort, so I'll try to get the dedicated time to run the debugging session and get the data off to support to review - this system is currently in heavy demand as the school year has started up.
-Suzukiginsu
Lowlander,
This is a rebuilt OS install - I formatted the drives etc. All external devices that were plugged into the system when my guest (10 yr. old nephew with a penchant for online web games) did his magic, or one of those sites did it's magic. I've loaded the bare minimum of what's needed at this time - MS Office, Avast! Antivirus, Adobe bits and bobs, and of course Firefox. There isn't a whole lot of stuff to really lead to driver issues etc. I had a lot more stuff loaded on this system before the events that lead to the reload, and no issues, but I was running a 3.x version of MediaMonkey at that time. At any rate, I'm going to run through the debug steps because it doesn't matter if I'm Local Admin or a standard user.
I'm dealing with a Quad Core, 2.33 GHz system, with 8 GB of RAM, two 1TB SATA drives in a RAID1 config.
To address Technojnky's comment - I understand the comments re locked files etc. (I'm a UN*X admin by training, with a strong background in SAN/NAS types of storage) The reason for the shared location is so that all of the systems in the house access the one DB, and consequently, one set of playlists. As part of my testing for this, however, as you've suggested, I had removed the MediaMonkey.ini file that was setup to use the UNC paths to the network share, and the problem persists, so I think, other than the music's on the network, I'm good from a file open/close/read/write performance perspective.
I'm no fan of Windows, as I find troubleshooting with it to be more arcane art than science compared to the many flavours of UN*X I've worked with. If there was a version of MediaMonkey that was LINUX based, I'd be building a custom system for just that purpose - some of the low power micro and pico ATX systems really appeal to the builder in me. :-)
Thank you both for your comments, I suspect I've got a new issue of some sort, so I'll try to get the dedicated time to run the debugging session and get the data off to support to review - this system is currently in heavy demand as the school year has started up.
-Suzukiginsu