Just wondering if anyone can shed any light on a weird issue I’m having.
I have a WDTV Live with the latest firmware connected to a 3TB WD Elements drive via USB. I have many files on this drive in various subfolders but I have the strange issue that random avi files will be converted to folders but with the title of the original file with a .avi at the end.
These folders only show up when I’m browsing to the drive from a computer, on the WDTV Live itself, the files are just gone. It’s not files on the root of the drive but avi files in subfolders some 3 levels deep and it’s only random ones, others are fine. The folder size shows as 0 bytes and I can’t see anyway to restore the avi files. Can anyone give me any clues as to what I can do to restore the files and also stop this from happening?
Pretty much the same story for me. I have used my WD TV Live Plus for several years with one attached USB 2TB WD drive. After the most recent update (1.06.42_B) I had several playlist files (.pls) changed to a directory and made useless. Thankfully, I have all my video files under a directory /.hidden/Video/ that the WD box doesn’t even see. This limited my destruction to the files that can be seen - my playlists and the associated .jpg thumbnails for the playlists. Both of these I can easily recreate.
Haven’t noticed this in the last couple of weeks but live in terror of suddenly finding my 2 TB of files suddenly being converted and lost.
Yes it seems to only have happened since the last firmware update, hasn’t anyone had any issues after downgrading? And what’s the exact process for downgrading?
The same problem here. I have downgraded the firmware hoping to save my files. Now the WD TV Live starts with message “new firmware available”, and I have to ignore this. Nice.