Snapstream Ate My Homework!

[Bryhawks]

No, I didn't carefully review the manual. It was installed, and I was in emergency need of recording a cable program. I got it working (with next to NO fiddling - thank you!), and immediately afterward my hour-long, can't view again program was automatically deleted thanks to low drive space.

WHAT?? This is a default setting? I will automagically lose files I previously recorded, rather then getting 'out of space' errors upon recording? I can see turning this on manually (I've since turned it off, of course), but come on. That makes me furious, especially as I watched the record light and knew that I was finally (for the first time in over a year) getting a real Snapstream recording done.

By the way, there's a 524,288KB temp file called tsbuffer.dat in the parent folder of the 'shows' folder. Might this contain a copy of my show, and is there any way to get at it? If not, why do I have a 1/2 GB dat file in this directory, and what will break if I remove it?

Thanks for any assistance. Rant over.

[RobertH]

the auto expire settings for drive space arent enabled by default. atleast on the common store folder, the tsbuffer.dat file is the livetv buffer file, it is only usable in the current livetv session, and if you leave allways timeshifting on it is overwritten constantly. snapstream wont break if you delete it but it will be recreated the next time snapstream is started up.

[genesis]

assuming he hasn't started livetv since, shouldn't he be able to open the ts buffer using something like videolan? I'd think there's a chance he could recover his lost show.