[Regnad]

While dbPoweramp was converting/writing files to the 2TB WD drive attached to the BDP-1, I inadvertently shut down the BDP-1 (from front switch) and I believe that this is why the music files can no longer be seen.   Also, after updating, the drive causes the MPD server to crash and the drive can't be navigated from the front panel.

A Mac and a PC see and read the music files OK.  I used the Mac Disk Repair utility and it had to truncate some files that look like files that were being written when I shut down the BDP-1.

So, a few things...

1.  Can anyone help me save the carefully vetted 370 GB of music?  Please, oh, please!

2.  Shouldn't shutdown, even while writing to disk, control the system and prevent this?

3.  Would NTFS, rather than FAT32, have helped?

Thanks for any help!

[SamKVA]

While dbPoweramp was converting/writing files to the 2TB WD drive attached to the BDP-1, I inadvertently shut down the BDP-1 (from front switch) and I believe that this is why the music files can no longer be seen.   Also, after updating, the drive causes the MPD server to crash and the drive can't be navigated from the front panel.

A Mac and a PC see and read the music files OK.  I used the Mac Disk Repair utility and it had to truncate some files that look like files that were being written when I shut down the BDP-1.

So, a few things...

1.  Can anyone help me save the carefully vetted 370 GB of music?  Please, oh, please!

2.  Shouldn't shutdown, even while writing to disk, control the system and prevent this?

3.  Would NTFS, rather than FAT32, have helped?

Thanks for any help!

If you have the disk space available on the Mac, I would copy all of the files from the suspect drive to a folder on the Mac, re-initialize the drive and then copy the files back. You may still have some corrupt files but hopefully, they will be easy to find.

Sam

[Regnad]

Thanks Sam,

I basically did that, this time using NTFS hoping that it might help. 

Then, with 480 GB, I was converting files and the network connection failed for some reason and the SAME thing happened to the disk drive, After updating, no files and the MPD server was dead.   A PC and a Mac all see the files fine.

Another mass copy, re-format, mass copy and I'm going again.  From now on I will add music using my local machine rather than the BDP-1.

Am I the only one seeing this?

Thanks.

[skunark]

I would say very few folks convert files over the network, even less folks would turn off their gear why doing the conversion. so that's probably why it's just you , but I would ask why and what are converting as it might not be necessary in the first place.   

I would recommend that you always convert "to" a local drive so the application doing the conversion can remove the file if there is an issue (i.e. network issue from the "from" drive).  At least this way you have some level of assurance that the file is fully converted.   if you knew what files didn't fully get copied on your BDP disk, then you could have just deleted those files.     

As for MPD crashing, there could be several reasons but most likely it's hung up on meta data used by the conversion software or that the converted file has a truncated tag that MPD hung up on and you happened to stumble upon that bug.