I've seen a bunch of threads about TiVo Transfer not working in Snow Leopard, but none about Mac2TiVo. So I wanted to post this to find out what the solution for Mac2TiVo not working might be. Mac2TiVo runs and appears to start properly, but the TiVo devices cannot see any files in the served directories and the system.log file contains endless errors every second that look like:
Sep 11 11:28:53 snow [0x0-0xff0ff].com.roxio.Mac2Tivo[19560]: 2009-09-11 11:28:53.963 RXTivoServer[19563:4a0b] *** -[NSAutoreleasePool release]: This pool has already been drained, do not release it (double release).
These errors repeat forever and TiVos never see any served files on Snow Leopard. Meanwhile, on the same machine booted into Leopard, it works fine. Please let me know what the solution to this is. I've already updated to 10.0.2.
Thanks.
Full Version: Mac2TiVo not working in Snow Leopard?
Let me ask the question a different way.
Has *anyone* gotten Mac2TiVo *working* on Snow Leopard and if so did you do anything special?
Has *anyone* gotten Mac2TiVo *working* on Snow Leopard and if so did you do anything special?
To be honest, I haven't got Mac2TIVO working in Leopard or Snow Leopard. I have a Series3 HD and after running Mac2TIVO, it shows up, lists the folders (movies) and I begin the transfer.
After that, the wheels fall off and the entire process just seems to hang.
I had a small movie I wanted to transfer that I had in H.264 MP4 format, about 100 meg, and it never seemed to finish. This should have taken a few minutes, but hours later it was still transferring.
I really don't like this new approach Roxio has taken and wish they would go back to the System Pref Panel method, that has worked flawlessly for me since it came out. Now, it just doesn't work at all.
After that, the wheels fall off and the entire process just seems to hang.
I had a small movie I wanted to transfer that I had in H.264 MP4 format, about 100 meg, and it never seemed to finish. This should have taken a few minutes, but hours later it was still transferring.
I really don't like this new approach Roxio has taken and wish they would go back to the System Pref Panel method, that has worked flawlessly for me since it came out. Now, it just doesn't work at all.
QUOTE (Will Price @ Sep 14 2009, 05:08 PM) 
Let me ask the question a different way.
Has *anyone* gotten Mac2TiVo *working* on Snow Leopard and if so did you do anything special?
Has *anyone* gotten Mac2TiVo *working* on Snow Leopard and if so did you do anything special?
QUOTE (DWY @ Sep 17 2009, 11:29 AM)
To be honest, I haven't got Mac2TIVO working in Leopard or Snow Leopard. I have a Series3 HD and after running Mac2TIVO, it shows up, lists the folders (movies) and I begin the transfer.
After that, the wheels fall off and the entire process just seems to hang.
I had a small movie I wanted to transfer that I had in H.264 MP4 format, about 100 meg, and it never seemed to finish. This should have taken a few minutes, but hours later it was still transferring.
I really don't like this new approach Roxio has taken and wish they would go back to the System Pref Panel method, that has worked flawlessly for me since it came out. Now, it just doesn't work at all.
After that, the wheels fall off and the entire process just seems to hang.
I had a small movie I wanted to transfer that I had in H.264 MP4 format, about 100 meg, and it never seemed to finish. This should have taken a few minutes, but hours later it was still transferring.
I really don't like this new approach Roxio has taken and wish they would go back to the System Pref Panel method, that has worked flawlessly for me since it came out. Now, it just doesn't work at all.
Remember that Roxio wasn't involved at all in TiVo Desktop for Mac - that said I'm also a fan of the System Pref panel but that said it has nothing to do with the apps working or not working.
A Mac2TiVo update for Snow Leopard will be included in the Snow Leopard updates coming out shortly that should solve the 10.6 issues and several others.
i'm running 10.3 with updated mac2tivo and I am seeing more and more my video files that used to work fine now cause the tivo to say your transfer will start after the previous transfer completes (which there wasn't) the blue light on the S3 comes on and only a hard reboot turns it off. WTF is going on?
System Snow leopard 10.6.1
Tivo S3
Video files are various and all worked prior to upgrading to snow leopard.
I've tried resetting the Network setting from DHCP to Static and back
Removed all video files except 1 (which transferred with no issues prior to 10.6) from the shared folder
It's just not working anymore.
update: I setup mac2tivo on my other mac running 10.5.8 with the same video files and they transfer fine.
Something in 10.6.1 is causing my S3 to report previous transfer and putting it in limbo. So frustrating, but at least now I have a work around until this issue is resolved.
2nd Update: I did a complete uninstall and reinstall then redid the 10.3 update and now it's working on my 10.6.1 Mac. I have no idea where or what was causing the issue but so far it looks like I'm back in business.
System Snow leopard 10.6.1
Tivo S3
Video files are various and all worked prior to upgrading to snow leopard.
I've tried resetting the Network setting from DHCP to Static and back
Removed all video files except 1 (which transferred with no issues prior to 10.6) from the shared folder
It's just not working anymore.
update: I setup mac2tivo on my other mac running 10.5.8 with the same video files and they transfer fine.
Something in 10.6.1 is causing my S3 to report previous transfer and putting it in limbo. So frustrating, but at least now I have a work around until this issue is resolved.
2nd Update: I did a complete uninstall and reinstall then redid the 10.3 update and now it's working on my 10.6.1 Mac. I have no idea where or what was causing the issue but so far it looks like I'm back in business.
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