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Update. Since I posted back in early September, my HDR Fox T2 has been running all the time, solid as a rock, flawlessly. Previously, it would have crashed/frozen perhaps half a dozen times since then. Also, I’ve used iPlayer in the Humax portal several times, which, previously was enough...

One reformat and fixdisk later, and the problem is gone. All the old files copied across. Many thanks.

I really meant special thanks to MymsMan for coming up with the solution to a problem that has perplexed me on and off for some 8 years, but thanks too for the inputs from Black Hole, prpr, MartinLiddle and aw1

Success and a bit of a breakthrough. I formatted the 2TB drive, fixdisk’d it and was able to copy all files across. But when I went to the Portal the box crashed. After trying a couple more times, with the unit crashing again, eventually I was able to get to iPlayer. But then I got...

Thanks, Luke. Looking closer, I now see that where there is a folder containing 2 or more episodes of a series, the thumbnails and correct dates are present on the programmes inside that folder, and I can fast forwards. Also, the Info does display when the button is pressed twice...

I’ve done something daft when copying the recordings from my 500GB drive to the new 2TB drive. Other than looking in the cfw gui, you wouldn’t know anything’s wrong: using the remote control to bring up Media shows all the recordings and plays them. However, when I look in Browse in gui, I see...

“Delinquent”, what a nice, appropriate word. In future, I will keep a sharp lookout for such files instead of letting my subconscious mind dismiss it with a fuzzy “wonder what that’s about”.

Since re-formatting the 2TB HDD, the HDR-FoxT2 is working perfectly: it passes the Portal iPlayer streaming test every time and is very stable - no more random freezes. I refitted the 1 TB Pipeline HDD hoping it would freeze the HDR in iPlayer so I could test whether or not deleting the...

Many thanks; I did in fact read that but shied away from it because I didn’t fully understand it and if I followed it, it’d be monkey-see, monkey-do fashion. However, I have that 1TB Pipeline HDD to play around with and, then with a better understanding, I could then set about the 2TB Video...

Many thanks. Things are looking good on the 2TB disk so far. I have run fixdisk twice: once so it can sort out its objections to what it claims are dodgy inodes and the second to prove it’s now happy, and the 2TB disk passes the iplayer test without freezing the HDR. And I remembered I...

If it happens again, that’s a troubleshooting step I’ll include for sure. Meanwhile, I’m running fixdisk in the CFW and will report back. By the way, how does one delete that buffer file?

Some progress. I decided to re-format the 2TB drive and see how that behaved in the Portal’s iPlayer. I ran into the same message I got before when doing this (via the Humax Settings Menu): drive is too big to format. So I set the box to RMA, installed the Humax stock firmware...

Stress test done with the 2TB Seagate Video drive fitted.. Whilst HDR was recording 2 HD programmes, I was able to watch a recorded HD programme on Media. I repeated this a couple of times. No problems at all. It was rock stable; I was able to open the Media menu at the same time to...

Will do and will report back.

So all that time my Portal’s been working perfectly, I took it for granted and never realised how well off I was. I remember your telling me during previous troubleshooting how sensitive the HDR is network problems as well the problems with the unsupported buggy code. Meanwhile, qtube...