Hello everyone,
I’ve been enjoying Plex DVR but have come across an odd problem. I’m not even sure if the DVR is the cause, but repeatedly I’ve had non-DVR television episodes deleted. I’d be happy to info in addition to the details below to figure out the actual cause of the problem.
I’m using a WinTV-DualHD USB tuner, running Plex on Windows 10.
I recorded a few episodes of Kolchak: The Night Stalker on a local over-the-air station. These went to a library labeled “DVR TV Shows,” and I deleted episodes as I watched them. I watched and deleted a few episodes over the past few weeks.
I eventually decided not to wait for weekly broadcasts and get the whole series–one season, twenty episodes–on my own. I put these 20 episodes in my library labeled “TV Shows,” separate from the DVR recordings (“DVR TV Shows”).
I no longer have recordings scheduled for the show on the DVR, nor do I have recorded episodes scheduled to be deleted.
On repeated occasions, 17 of those episodes (not recorded on DVR) have ended up deleted from that TV Shows library folder. I found them in the Recycle Bin and simply restored them. I haven’t found an exact pattern for when this happens.
Each time this happens, the same 3 episodes remain in my TV Shows library.
I have had problems in the past with Plex not finding media files, but I’ve never had problems with Plex deleting files. I could be wrong in my assumption that this has anything to do with the DVR directly, of course.
This is a small quirk, and I have an easy work around (simply restore from Recycle Bin) but I assume solving this would solve problems for other people, so please let me know what information I can supply to troubleshoot this.
Thanks in advance for everyone’s time and assistance.
jimbosuave
p.s. After each recent Plex update, Plex cannot find my WinTV-DualHD USB tuner. Again I’ve had an easy work around: delete and restart. I assume this is already being worked on, so if there’s a thread that anyone has found (I haven’t) please let me know.
