[GUIDE] Solving: Sharing settings in Twonky Media Server are lost after restarting

WD Legacy Products My Book Live
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I originally post it here: http://community.twonky.com/twonky/topics/sharing_settings_in_twonky_media_server_are_lost_after_restarting

MBL 2T F/W 02.32.05-046 and Twonky 5.1.9

Note: this is going to ignore configs from: mybooklive/UI/shares

Dificult: advanced

  1. Setup folders share in Twonky web interface:
    mybooklive:9000/config

  2. open this url:
    mybooklive:9000/rpc/get_all

  3. get info from variable contentdir from result of step 2.
    If it is like this: contentdir=+V|/Public/Shared Videos,+V|/Public/Torrents
    You should copy this part: +V|/Public/Shared Videos,+V|/Public/Torrents

  4. Open SSH to your mybooklive

  5. edit the file: /etc/contentdir
    Replace all file contents with contents from step 3.

  6. Restart your mybooklive

  7. Go back again to: mybooklive:9000/config and under Maintance use REBUILD DATABASE

Done! Have fun!

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In step 2, you suggested this

  1. open this url:

mybooklive:9000/rpc/get_all

it would make life a little easier to use this command instead

of having to search through all that data

the following would return that info and nothing else

http://mybooklive:9000/rpc/get_option?contentdir

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There are two oither ways to do this

Edit the twonky startup script file, /etc/init.d/twonky

Change the following

# after 10 seconds, write twonky config from file
( sleep 10; /usr/local/sbin/writeTwonkyContentDir.sh ) &

to this, by adding a # to the second line, which comments out that line

# after 10 seconds, write twonky config from file
# ( sleep 10; /usr/local/sbin/writeTwonkyContentDir.sh ) &

OR

Just rename the script that is doing the actuall changes to twonky’s contentdir setting

cd /usr/local/sbin/
mv writeTwonkyContentDir.sh writeTwonkyContentDir.sh.old
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Nice! Thanks to share

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Likewise, thanks for sharing

People now have a few options/choices to make the needed changes

they can just pick the one they like the most

and either of them will do the job