iEye Captain Icon    Linking files & folders already moved out of your main EyeTV Archive

If you already had to move schedules or recordings outside of your main EyeTV Archive, use the "Link Items to EyeTV Archive" sub-menu of the Tools menu to link them back in without moving the actual files.

Without iEye Captain, many users juggle archives on other disks by selecting them in EyeTV’s preferences, quitting, and re-launching to make them active. This way you can use a second disk, but can not see, record to, or access the first disk’s archive while you are connected to the second disk’s archive. As these archives expand, they can become very difficult to manage, because EyeTV can not switch archives while it is busy recording or showing live TV.

These archives may be easily and safely integrated together, using iEye Captain’s unique “Link Items to EyeTV Archive” feature. In seconds, you will have permanent access to all of these secondary archives… Once finished, EyeTV will think that they are all on the same disk.

You will have no problems managing all your hard drives from one location with iEye Captain after using this feature, and the best news is that you will have full functionality in EyeTV as well! It is suggested that once you use this feature that you do not go back to switching archives manually.


Steps for linking items into main EyeTV Archive (do this when EyeTV is not recording):

1. Pick which archive will be your main archive. This will usually be the disk with the most usable space. After you have linked the archives, this main archive will be the one that you always leave selected in EyeTV’s preferences.
2. One by one, select each secondary archive in EyeTV’s preferences, quit, re-launch, and disable or delete any scheduled programs that will conflict with schedules in your main archive. If you have duplicate recordings for any reason, it would be a good idea to delete these as well.
3. Once you have completed step 2 for every archive other than the main archive, select the main archive in EyeTV’s preferences, quit, and re-launch.
4. Launch iEye Captain. If you haven’t registered the program, you will need to do so before accessing this feature.
5. Choose Tools -> Link Items to EyeTV Archive. You will be prompted to browse to select an EyeTV Archive Folder (it must be named this way, and be a valid archive). Linking only takes a few seconds – iEye Captain will inform you how many schedule folders were moved, and if there were any problems, how many were not moved. This is usually because of a folder that has been copied from one archive to another, and was not deleted in the original location. In this case, you will need to manually locate the folders with the same names and consolidate their contents.
6. Repeat step #5 once for each secondary archive.
7. You will need to “Re-launch” EyeTV using the “Re-launch EyeTV” item in the Tools menu, or activate EyeTV, quit, and re-launch, for the linking to be complete. If EyeTV is active recording, you will need to wait until the recording is complete before quitting and re-launching.


Voila! EyeTV will now be able to see all of your schedules and recordings on every disk… You can record, play, edit, compact, and export within EyeTV as if everything were sitting on the same disk. Inside iEye Captain, you also will have other information and controls, letting you manage your content even further. One of the first things that you will notice is that the location of a recording or schedule is indicated in panes of the main window, and in the info drawer. Inside the Schedule Info drawer, you also have controls for switching where a schedule records to — a very handy feature when one hard drive is getting full.