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Linking files & folders already moved out of your main EyeTV Archive |
If you already had to move schedules or recordings outside of your main EyeTV Archive, use the "Link Items to EyeTV Archive" sub-menu of the Tools menu to link them back in without moving the actual files. Without iEye Captain, many users juggle archives on other disks by selecting them in EyeTV’s preferences, quitting, and re-launching to make them active. This way you can use a second disk, but can not see, record to, or access the first disk’s archive while you are connected to the second disk’s archive. As these archives expand, they can become very difficult to manage, because EyeTV can not switch archives while it is busy recording or showing live TV. These archives may be easily and safely integrated together, using iEye Captain’s unique “Link Items to EyeTV Archive” feature. In seconds, you will have permanent access to all of these secondary archives… Once finished, EyeTV will think that they are all on the same disk. You will have no problems managing all your hard drives from one location with iEye Captain after using this feature, and the best news is that you will have full functionality in EyeTV as well! It is suggested that once you use this feature that you do not go back to switching archives manually. |
Steps for linking items into main EyeTV Archive (do this when EyeTV is not recording): 1. Pick which archive will be your main archive. This will usually be the disk with the most usable space. After you have linked the archives, this main archive will be the one that you always leave selected in EyeTV’s preferences. |
Voila! EyeTV will now be able to see all of your schedules and recordings on every disk… You can record, play, edit, compact, and export within EyeTV as if everything were sitting on the same disk. Inside iEye Captain, you also will have other information and controls, letting you manage your content even further. One of the first things that you will notice is that the location of a recording or schedule is indicated in panes of the main window, and in the info drawer. Inside the Schedule Info drawer, you also have controls for switching where a schedule records to a very handy feature when one hard drive is getting full. |