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rforgo
02-11-2007, 04:34 PM
This is an ongoing saga, and any help is appreciated. I have a Series 2 TiVo and a wireless connection through a Linksys wireless G router. Sometime last November I lost the connection between TiVo and my PC running TiVo Desktop 2.3a. I tried every combination of rebooting the PC, router, modem and TiVo unit you could think of and I could not get it back.

TiVo Desktop can see the TiVo fine, and I can use functions like weather and Yahoo Pictures. But the little icon that once showed the files stored on my PC in the Now Playing list is gone. Frustrated, I walked away from it for a while, then come back and try again, usually with no luck. But yesterday was different.

I read a thread here that suggested uninstalling TD 2.3a, installing 2.2, then reinstalling 2.3a. I tried everything else, so I figured why not. I did as suggested and there was no immediate fix. I left the house and came back a couple hours later turned on TiVo and lo-and-behold there was the PC. But it was running on 2.2.

Now TD had to be changed to redirect to my Maxtor external hard drive where my movies are stored, and the thread said to uninstall and the reinstall 2.3. So I did -- I uninstalled 2.2, then reinstalled 2.3a and pointed the save files folder at the Maxtor. Now it's missing again. I'm hating life. Why would this be happening?

Werd2406
02-12-2007, 01:38 AM
I have the EXACT same problem.

mforrests
02-12-2007, 10:19 AM
I have the same problem


AAARGH!!!!

MFS

morac
02-12-2007, 03:07 PM
How many "TiVo*" processes are running in your task list and what are they?


Do you have any firewalls set up (including one built into Windows?). Try disabling them and see if that fixes it.

Change the permission settings in TiVoDesktop to allow any TiVo to access TiVo Desktop and see if that helps.


Other than that I dunno.

steve614
02-13-2007, 12:09 AM
If it works while using TD 2.2, and not when you use TD 2.3a, why not just use v. 2.2?

I'm currently still using v. 2.2 and have no problems.

Do you get that much more out of v. 2.3a versus v. 2.2?

Werd2406
02-13-2007, 02:14 AM
Mine mysteriously came back when i got home from work...

Sparty99
02-13-2007, 10:05 AM
Mine disappears when I have no items in the folder on my PC. Moving a video file into that folder doesn't help, so I need to restart the TiVo. I've now got a file marked for the sole purpose of keeping the file in that folder, so hopefully it won't happen again. We'll see what happens.

mrjam2jab
02-13-2007, 10:21 AM
Mine intermittently disappears. The other night i was transferring from PC to Tivo...about an hour into the transfer PC disappeared from NPL....but somehow transfer not only continued but finished properly. Restarted the tivo and PC was there again. I have also sat there and watched the NPL and the PC would come and go...with no action being taken...