I have an issue with iTunes and my media in the unraid. I am currently working in Vietnam and there are frequent power outages. I have my computers set to automatically start upon restoration of power.  The problem is that my windows 7 machine starts up, logs in and starts iTunes faster than the unraid box. Itunes then does not see the media directory and defaults back to the user/music folder.

 

Has anyone else had this issue or know a way around it?

Use a UPS ... ?

Would work except it can be out 4-8 hours.

stage one get a ups

 

with that many power problems its just a matter of time before you kit breaks

 

stage 2 do not set your machines to start up automatically after power failure without a UPS

 

doing so means if you are away and you get a series of short power outages your chance of kit breaking goes up alot

 

stage 3 we can look at timings once you protect your kit

I am well aware of the issues with power and the problems possible from it, but thanks for your concern. I have plenty of backups and could care less about the boxes them selves or the hard drives in them. It is looking like I just will not be able to continue with automatic login for the win7 box as it just gets up and running faster and causes this issue. It makes it a pain when I am out of town and my wife wants to watch something. I either have to login remotely or walk her through it as it is headless.

you could use a simple script to connect your mapped drives and delay its launch at bootup

 

 

Thanks, NAS, that seems to work. i created a task to be run 90 seconds after logging in that first mounts the drive then opens itunes. Thanks.

nice one. should be reliable forever as well. always a sign of a good solution