Brucey7

I process all my movies with mkvmerge to add-in (if separate) or keep all the audio tracks and subtitles, setting the default play language to English, or English subs if foreign audio and setting the forced flag on subs that should be English forced. Resulting filename would be... Notebook, The (2004) HD1080p,TH,FR,DE,IT.mkv It makes it really easy to search for a movie with (say) Thai audio or subs so my kids can watch it with me, just windows search for ",TH" (we live in Thailand)

No I didn't try any switches, I only read the manual when I've f??ked something up

v1.3 works perfectly, I found 4 failed copies and was able to identify the right version. Excellent utility - Thank you!

thanks, I tried that, alas no luck. I will have to wait for the next version

here you go, there are over 10,000 movies (folders + >40,000 files)

here you go

The only way I can see that error being reported is if there were no files found (the current logic assumes this is not a possibility)! Can you try running with the -v option as that might give more information. It's a huge share and it finishes immediately, quicker than even spinning up the disks, there are definitely duplicates, I will try it with -v

I also get an error

While that's technically true, don't forget that for an application where the powered devices are in water there's something to be said for good isolation transformers and ground-fault breakers. A PC power supply doesn't provide this level of protection. You could, of course plug it in to a ground-fault breaker, but it still wouldn't have the isolation a transformer provides. Every computer PSU is isolated from the mains, there is a transformer in there, it's just not being used the same way. Of course, it's not certified for the purpose of a swimming pool, but it's probably going to be equally as safe (the design of all legally sold switching PSU's in Western countries will fail "safe") and they are typically only 20% of the price. It's what I have been using for a couple of years. Your lights should be well insulated too, you'll get quite a kick off 12 volts in a swimming pool. I guess the problem comes when both your PSU and your wiring in the pool fail. I am with you 100% on a specialised breaker.

You would be astounded at what goes on in Thailand. There is a company listed on the Thai stock exchange with stores in every major city. All they sell are pirated VCD's, DVD's and Blu-Ray's. The printing on the boxes is low resolution, although usually the discs themselves are perfect. You raise an interesting point. If you previously bought a VHS tape, you have a non-exclusive licence to the movie. I wonder what the legal situation would be if you downloaded a high definition version of it.

Do you mean I shouldn't be downloading lots of movies from thepiratebay etc. I am shocked! ;-)

I too had a bad port on a Norco. First the drive appeared but unformatted, attempting to format it caused unRAID to loop and become unresponsive (however, formatting a bunch of disks at the same time, unRAID correctly recognised the problem and skipped over that port - note, probably a bug in unRAID). In diagnosing the fault with new disks (it was actually a brand new system), it trashed the filesystems on the disks. The disks were actually blank, but formatted for unRAID. When putting the disks back in other slots, unRAID started normally, but then hit a write error attempting to write to any disk that had been in that faulty Norco slot. All those disks needed formatting with something else first or pre_clearing again.

A typical computer PSU is the most economical way of providing power to 12 volt swimming pool lights. Swimming pool lighting manufacturers haven't worked out that a switching power supply is by far the cheapest way of providing 12 volts at high current. They are still selling huge, expensive transformers.

Partly it's a real pain. Annually, we bring a server in the car (that's the painful bit) and then sync it using Beyond Compare (which is a stunning piece of software). Monthly, we use Beyond Compare to copy all new/modified files/folders since the last sync date to a new disk and post that. I dare say we could do it with a VPN but our internet lines are maxed out 24/7, mine with movies, and his with TV series. Other methods considered, have been replacing a disk/rebuilding parity on the donor machine and posting the pulled disk. Popping the pulled disk into the recipient machine and doing a new config and rebuilding parity.

I use another unRAID user. We mirror our movie/TV collections and periodically sync our machines. All my personal stuff, photos etc, I keep on multiple systems and in the cloud.

Here's a wacky idea for a combined UPS and PSU. It's called a car battery 12 volts (approx), tapped at 4 cells for 5v (approx) with a decent charger on it. Anybody tried it? After all, our UPS is a 12 volt battery, run through an inverter to produce 230VAC (in Thailand) then the PSU steps it down to 12volts AC, rectifies it to DC and smooths it to nearly as good as a car battery, all that inefficiency... You could probably get 4-6 hours Uninterruptible Battery Backup with a decent car battery.