Tivo Desktop Plus: way to tell it which order to transfer?

[sushikitten]

I am in the process of loading four seasons worth of a show from my computer to my tivo. I picked the main folder, chose "look in subfolders" (or whatever it's called) and just let it run. It was set to KAM 5, which I assume would mean there would always be 5 eps ready and waiting, and as soon as I watched an ep or two, more would load (to keep it at 5).

Well, I started it this morning, and I just happened to look on my tivo, and there are a few eps from season 2 and a few eps from season 3. This does me NO good whatsoever since I want to watch them in order.

Is there any way for me to do this automatically?

The only way I know how to get exactly what I want in the order I want it is to create folders with 5 episodes in it and KAM 5...which seems like a major pain when there are like 25 eps per season, because then every few days (or as I need new eps) I am running to the computer to set the next folder to transfer.

I am new to this transferring stuff, but it doesn't look like there are too many options (not even a KAM all - but it has a limit of 10).

[windracer]

The manual way would be to initiate the transfers (in order) from your TiVo instead of using the push (auto-transfer) feature of TiVo Desktop.

[sushikitten]

So load them into the main screen of Tivo Desktop, then pull them from the actual tivo...and they will go in order? It sounds like it might be worth a try. Thanks! (Still not perfect, but at least a solution!)

[wtherrell]

So load them into the main screen of Tivo Desktop, then pull them from the actual tivo...and they will go in order? It sounds like it might be worth a try. Thanks! (Still not perfect, but at least a solution!)
Once you have them on the Tivo, you can arrange either by alphabetical order or by date. Then they should transfer in order.

[windracer]

So load them into the main screen of Tivo Desktop, then pull them from the actual tivo...and they will go in order?
Basically. You'll have to transfer them one at a time so you control the order they transfer in.

[sushikitten]

Unfortunately, I am not having good luck with this. I told it to transfer 5 eps this morning and just sat down and none were there. NONE. Even though I saw the little blue dot telling me it was downloading.

So I told it to start again. And it got 3 minutes done and stopped, saying I had network issues. Which I don't. Ugh.

[sushikitten]

Just an update - I have just about given up on transferring stuff from my PC to my Tivo. I have tried auto-transferring from my PC and hubby's PC, pulling from two separate tivos from each PC...and nothing works. Last night I set one normally-recorded show to transfer between tivos, as well as tried to pull three eps off my PC - yet in the morning? I had FOUR COPIES of the tivo-recorded program. :confused:

Is there any way to tell if the individual .avi files I am trying to transfer are somehow faulty?

[mdowden]

I've seen that problem happen with DIVX .avi files. You can look in the wspc.xml located in the Apps Data folder and it will tell you if there was a problem with the format. It says something like format supported, yes/no.

[sushikitten]

I found that file, but there is nothing in there regarding the failed transfers. It only has my most recent activities in there (Cooks Illustrated podcast).

I will try transferring again and see if anything appears.