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[ionizer]

Hi Ionizer,
I have no solutions but a bunch of questions.  Are you using the p2p function to download your TV stuff?  Do these downloads create a new folder along with the download file are are the files just added to an existing folder?  I am assuming the downloaded files are in a folder which is part of the upnp selection and you are not then copying the downloaded files to another folder, is this correct?  If you do then transfer them to another folder (part of the upnp) do the files then show up?
I did some experimenting earlier, as I generally did not have a problem with a few files showing up when added to an already existing folder but noticed that multiple GB transfers included in a new folder did not.  I did not further experiment as large file transfers such a long time.
The thing is, I am afraid Dlink is not going to jump on this UPNP problem for a long time, so a work around might be a solution for you for the time being.  I would be tempted to try and use the backup function to tranfer your download folder to another location periodically, once or twice a day just to see if this will trigger the Auto Refresh function.  Anyway, that is all I can think of for the time being.  Good luck.

I am not using a p2p program.
I am using an application which simply downloads the information and then literally performs a copy to the 
"specified folder" (a mapped drive for me on my local pc)

The specified folder is an existing folder within a UPNP specified folder.

Example:
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Existing folder: \TV  (Shared as UPNP in dns-320 setup)
Existing folder: \TV\Simpsons (Shared inherently via the master folder, but not specifically specified since it should fall under inheritance from \TV)

New Simpsons episode gets downloaded and copy to \TV\Simpsons\The_Simpsons_S1EP1.avi

File is not showing up (Folder on DLNA isn't displaying if no existing files were in the simpsons folder) and if there was an existing file which had been manually refreshed, only that file shows up, not the new one copied over.

[cable2]

Hi Ionizer,
I don't use anything to copy from my windows 7 machine, I do a manual copy and that seems to work for me.  I would try a manual copy just as an experiment and see if that works for you.  By the way, you are using 2.02 I hope, because the earlier firmwares did not even have the alphanumeric feature working correctly.  Also, which software are you using to transfer the files, is it integrated with your p2p / download or a separate item?  I use something called "syncback" and that seems to work for some nas to nas backups pretty well.  I am wondering if their is something incompatible with your transfer software, I know one of the other posts had trouble with the backup software they were using.   That's about all I can think of right now.  Good luck.

[ionizer]

Hi Ionizer,
I don't use anything to copy from my windows 7 machine, I do a manual copy and that seems to work for me.  I would try a manual copy just as an experiment and see if that works for you.  By the way, you are using 2.02 I hope, because the earlier firmwares did not even have the alphanumeric feature working correctly.  Also, which software are you using to transfer the files, is it integrated with your p2p / download or a separate item?  I use something called "syncback" and that seems to work for some nas to nas backups pretty well.  I am wondering if their is something incompatible with your transfer software, I know one of the other posts had trouble with the backup software they were using.   That's about all I can think of right now.  Good luck.

I am using 2.00 because 2.02 simply indicated it addressed two issues (3tb and time machine) which has nothing to do with what i have an issue with.

for the purposes of full disclosure, I am using a program called Alt.Binz which is nothing more than a newsgroup binary reader.  It sits on my windows 7 PC, detects an NZB and downloads the data.  It then proceeds to unrar it in the download folder.  I then have SickBeard running which detects the final .AVI file and copies it from the Newsgroup download location to the NAS drive specific folder based on whether it's a simpsons episode, family guy, house, whatever. 

Note: There is nothing special about this process.  It's not really a "transfer software", it is simply performing a file move from one folder (Local drive:\blah\blah to another folder  MappedNASDrive:\tv\simpsons).  It's not some kind of special backup or anything else, it's just performing a move of the file.  The file is verified on the nas drive, so the issue is simply that the NAS drive is not updating the index to recognize a file has been moved to it.

If I moved the file manually myself, the same issue occurs.  The index is not updating automatically.

Could the index itself be broken?  Is there a way to delete the index one time, generate it manually once and then hope it works fine from then on out?  All of this seemed to begin breaking around the time I moved all my MP3 folders/files from my local drive to the NAS drive.  That was a lot of files at once.

[cable2]

Ionizer,
I am as lost as you are, I just noticed that since I added all of the audio files to my media server, it seems to have stopped auto updating even for one file to an existing folder.  I have no idea exactly what is causing the problem, and frankly, I don't feel like experimenting for myself any longer.  The point is that the "auto update" on the media server is not working correctly still even with 2.02.  This seems ridiculous that well over a year after it's release, Dlink still doesn't seem to be able to get a fully functional UPNP server.  I think that other posts have pointed out that the UPNP server also has problems with several other playback devices not functioning.  The only thing that seems to make it work is to do a manual refresh which for me takes several hours during which time the 320 is useless to me.  Very, very frustrating.

[ionizer]

Agreed.  As this is one of the MAIN features of a device like this, it really is a critical function that needs to be looked at.  I know JL has it on his list, but I am not sure when that will be looked at.

JL - Can you get any type of acknowledgement that they are able to reproduce this issue and/or are looking into it? 

Otherwise all I own is a backup device unable to provide me access to the files I am backing up.  45% of NAS users utilize the device to playback video/audio/etc.

[saithan]

Well, sounds like some people has the same problem as me I'm looking forward to hearing the solution or when the solution will come.

However in the mean time I've managed to upload some of my movies (titles starting from A - N ) to my DNS320 under \\volume1\Movies then I made a folder no. 2 ( Movies 2) and uploaded (titles starting from O - R) I have no luck seeing the movies in the second folder (movies 2) but the movies uploaded in movies is on the index list and can be accessed. I just get a stupid code error on some of the movies. Then I just need to turn off my xbox and restart it and voila it runs, pretty stupid that I actually have to go through a ritual to make things work, just like in warhammer 40.000 novels.

EDIT: I've been refreshing, restarting, shutting down my DNS 320 and xbox in different combis to be able to come up with a ritual that would enable me to see the content of the folder "Movies 2" through the xbox, but no luck I still get the "No videos found".

[pgtest70]

Found out that HDD spindown time interferes with updates... On version 2.02 it fails updating if I set it to anything less then the times it takes to refresh the library... in my case 2 about hours... Had the Spindown time to 5 minutes (default) and it did only work for adding a small number of files at the time. After setting it to 5 hours, it completes every time.

Setup: Volume 1 is ordinary storage, Volume 2 contains the Upnp AV directories.
On update I see that both volumes are accessed, I guess the media descriptions get stored on Volume1 (hidden). Volume 2 LED blinks faster after spindown it seems...(when the update process retries to contact it... and fails, giving high CPU load and lockup of the process and lower write speeds ... even after the disk is spun up again.)

Workaround: Set spindown time to a sufficiently long time to let the process complete:
DLINK needs to look into this... the update process is not prohibiting HDD spindown.

[shabuboy]

I used the UPnP for a while and did not have any issues.

However, after installing fun plug, I moved to MediaTomb UPnP server and like it a lot better.

If you are having issues with the build-in, give MediaTomb a try.

[teddytejero]

firmware 2.02
2 TB HD standard mode

M. refresh took 48 hrs to complete only 50% ... let the unit shutdown. The unit is ok to play HD movies over the network but a lot of stuff isn't working. Ajax explorer ? Tried to access from outside the network but did not find any way.

[nmcar]

I used the UPnP for a while and did not have any issues.

However, after installing fun plug, I moved to MediaTomb UPnP server and like it a lot better.

If you are having issues with the build-in, give MediaTomb a try.

I have recently installed fun_plug, which includes mediatomb. I followed the instructions here:http://nas-tweaks.net/82/installing-and-uninstalling-packages-and-activation-and-deactivation-of-daemons-in-fonz-fun_plug/

However, I am a complete noob and I can't "see" it. I started it following the command line in putty, but I can't see any ui in the DNS-320 ui, so I cannot configure it. And I cannot find any post with instructions. Could you kindly explain me how to make this work? I am excited to make it work since the embedded UPnP server in the DNS-320 does not pick up subtitles when streaming movies and, AFAIK, Mediatomb does. Thank you.

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