Windows Media Live TV Buffer: How do I move TempRec?

Windows Media Live TV Buffer: How do I move TempRec?

Live TV Buffer: Recording Storage is designated for external drive (H) but TempSBE or TempRec folder keeps getting filled up in drive (C) Solid State Harddrive.

Kind of a major problem is happening just recently. I already designated my external western digital drive (H) as the recording storage location, but my TempSBE or TempRec folder is getting written to my SSD (C) drive. How do I get the temp files written to my (H) TempSBE location?

I've already done research on this and found the below link, did what Metalman suggested, and my TempRec folder in drive (C) keeps getting filled up. Can someone essentially hold my hands and guide me through the exact steps? I'm trying to follow the instructions, and I *think* I did them right, but still not working.

Windows Media Center LiveTV Buffer
(I followed the instruction by MetalMan in this link, but I still can't get it to work).

I basically removed all other drives including drive C: via Windows Media Center and just leaving drive H: and the Live TV Buffer files still gets written to drive C:

Just wanted to update my post and say that I figured it out....


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Space said:

Go back to my post and read it again, it says "from within WMC". You go to that location in the menu system of WMC to change where the recording folder is.
Go to Tasks\Settings\TV\Recorder\Recorder Storage and change the drive to C:, then save it and then close WMC and reboot the PC. Open WMC and go back to that location again and change it back to H:. This should make WMC use drive H: for the live buffer again.


However, if you do not fix the problem with the external hard drive sleeping, then WMC will eventually change it back to C: again on it's own. You need to make sure that drive H: is always available immediately whenever WMC needs to access it. If WMC has to wait several seconds for the drive to spin-up then it will time out and think the drive is no longer there and will change the live buffer location back to C: (which is probably how it was changed to C: in the first place).

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Finally figured it out. Wanted to wait until early morning to test it out. I did exactly what "Space" suggested. Go back into Windows' Tasks\Settings\TV\Recorder\Recorder Storage and change the drive to C:, then saved it, then closed WMC and reboot my PC. Opened WMC and went back to the same location and changed it back to drive H:.


The crucial part in making sure Live TV Buffer gets routed (or written) to my external harddrive (H) was to ensure my external harddrive (H) was in wake mode first BEFORE turning on Windows Media Center.


I also did all of the following below:

















The following two screens are the most important. Within the following screen, I had multiple storage location (harddrives) each with a check mark. The most important (to a certain extent; because this is only one part of the process) was to uncheck drive (C). I also had other external harddrives including (E) (F) (J) (I) (G) which I decided to uncheck as well (this may not even be necessary. But unchecking drive (C) was most important (to a certain extent).


Here, for my specific situation, I decided to only keep drive (H) with a check mark because I want both my recordings and Live TV buffer on drive (H).








Everything posted above is important, but the absolutely most important part of this whole mess is everything below.... even if you successfully do the above steps, if you don't allow your external harddrive to fully wake, Live TV buffer will default back to writing to drive (C).


The crucial part to making sure drive (H) was in fact the designated location for Live TV buffer (i.e. TempRec / TempSBE ) was in fact to make sure drive (H) is fully awake and active BEFORE turning on Windows Media Center as "space" mentioned above in his/her post. My computer opens an auto play folder box corresponding to each of my external drive whenever I restart or power on my computer. Even if you don't get the autoplay folder pop up box for your external harddrives, simply double click on your designated external harddrive (in my case drive (H)), and wait a few seconds and that should "wake" up your external harddrive. It is ONLY then that you would open Windows Media Center.


As you can see in the third screenshot below, once my external harddrive (H) is in awake mode, as soon as I turned on Windows Media Center, several files gets written to drive (H) TempSBE folder and no longer drive (C)'s TempSBE folder. And as soon as this happens once, and you keep your computer on (e.g. I like to keep my computer on 24 hours a day), even if you close out of Windows Media Center (WMC), come back several hours later or later in the day and turn WMC back on, Live TV buffer file will be written to your external harddrive (in my case drive (H)) even if the external harddrive was in sleep mode.

But of course, if you prefer to completely shutdown your computer, to ensure Live TV buffer gets written to your external harddrive again, make sure your external harrdrive is awake BEFORE turning on Windows Media Center.