Location of windows media center recordings

If, at any time, that external drive is not available be it because it was disconnected, the USB root hub was powered down, or the drive took longer to come on line after a cold start, or resuming from Sleep than the Recorder service took to start, then MC will fall back to the default original location.

To your second question: no, there is no way to auto-record or, for that matter, to save at all the Live TV buffer. It's been asked about for a few years now dating at least back to MC for Vista, probably back to Media Center That's a good answer on the TempRec folder. Would've saved me some frustration. But I suppose that's not your fault.

On the second question, I may have some helpful information. Here are the steps:. If you can't find it, it may be hidden. You can still get there just by copying and pasting one of the above locations into Explorer's address bar.

Or you can enable yourself to view hidden files. Select "Show hidden files, folders, and drives. The two most recent files should have the live stream from the last two channels you visited. COPY these files to some other folder. If there are more than two files, you can copy all of them; but I think the others won't be useable. Change the extension to dvr-ms. I think that's what these files are. Changing the extension to mpg also works.

You can also get rid of the. So the new file can be called:. The file will probably have problems such as incorrectly reporting how long it is. Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro? Windows Client. Sign in. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question 0. Report abuse. Details required :.

Cancel Submit. Tips If you're not sure how much free space a particular drive has, select the drive, and then check the chart under Total recording time before saving. How satisfied are you with this reply? I would like to know where are the recordings made in Media Center are stored on my computer? As to redirecting the recording folder: Yes, you can do that. Click Save. A reboot may be required for the change to take effect.

Note, though, that this will not move your existing recordings and, they'll no longer show up in Recorded TV, unless you make a Registry change. This brings the question: why move the RecordedTV folder or target?

Generally, one only does that if they're looking to record to a different physical drive, not if they're simply looking to record to a different folder on the same drive. Was this reply helpful?