iEye Captain Icon    Setting up storage locations

With iEye Captain, you can use an unlimited number of hard drives or archive folders to spread out or organize your recordings, yet they are all still available in EyeTV for full functionality. You can even use external drives and networked volumes, but it is suggested you keep to volumes that can always be mounted.

To access and/or add to your chosen archive locations, click the “Storage Locations” menu item in the Tools menu, or click “Set locations” in the Archive Mover window. The Storage Locations window will appear.

You may notice some locations have been automatically entered for you. If you have used the “Link Items to EyeTV Archive” feature to join multiple archives, you should see all of those secondary locations already added for you. You may change a label for one of these, but you may not delete a location if you see “Locked (in use)” in the “Status” column.

To add a new location, simply click the “Set…” button and use the browser to select a folder. It is suggested that you have only one folder per disk, as you can access a maximum of six extra folders in addition to your main EyeTV Archive. If you have more than one folder on a disk, you will limit your expansion options later. Then, type in a custom label or leave the one that was pre-entered, and hit the “+” button to add it.

To edit an existing location, select it in the table, and then either hit the “Set” button to change the location, or type a new label. When you are finished editing, you must hit the “Update” button to update the item in the table.

To remove a location (you can only do this if it is not in use), select the location in the table, and hit the “–“ button.

Finally, to save your changes, click the “Save” button, or if you would like to close without saving, hit the “Cancel” button.