This guide provides step-by-step instructions on how to transfer (quickly) large files from your PC to the Mvix MX-760HD or MX-780HD using Microsoft’s Robocopy tool.

Required Software: Microsoft RoboCopy
(You may already have this installed, open a command prompt (Click Start --> Run --> CMD) and type robocopy and hit enter. If robocopy is found you do not have to download Robocopy).

Purpose:
When using NDAS to transfer files to your Mvix MX-760 / MX-780HD player, you want to avoid using the copy and paste feature in Windows explorer to copy large files. When using Copy and Paste procedure to transfer large files, --> any quick network degradation can cause the copying process to halt, and stop. Even if you are 80% done into transfering a 30GB file transfer, you may have to restart the transfer. With the Copy and Paste procedure there is much more caching to memory of the files you are copying. The Robocopy Utility (usually comes bundled with your Microsoft Operating System) allows you to overcome such problems. The Robocopy utility can handle temporary network problems, and will copy files much faster than the traditional Copy and Paste procedure.

IMPORTANT NOTE:

Users who are using Windows XP or Windows Vista, with the built in Windows Firewall functioning, should allow ndassvc.exe full network access, it can be found in c:\Program Files\NDAS\System\ndassvc.exe.  Not allowing this service full network access can slow down, and cease.

Using Robocopy:

• Using robocopy is very simple, you can run it by going to Start --> Run --> type CMD.
• Type robocopy /? To see all available robocopy commands.

To copy files from c:\users\myuser\Downloads to your mvix drive on H:\Movies, type the following command and hit Enter

Robocopy c:\users\myuser\Downloads H:\movies /E *

The /E function is used to copy all directories, and the * will copy ALL files. You could limit this also by using *.jpg or *.mpg.

• There is also a mirroring option by using /mir. This will mirror the source directory to the destination directory. However, be aware that any file that has since been deleted in the source, and still exists in the destination, will be deleted from the destination the next time the robocopy job runs. Mirroring will delete files from the destination if they do not exist in the source.

Setting up your Robocopy copy script:

• On the PC which holds your videos and torrent downloads, create a directory in C:\ named Scripts. The folder location should be C:\scripts.

• Determine how to connect to your Mvix Media Player. If you decide to connect via NDAS, please follow the NDAS installation instructions in this Knowledge Base Article: Installing NDAS

• Open up Notepad by going to Start --> All Programs --> Accessories --> Notepad
• Next, note which drive, and directory your content is in, and the drive letter of your internal Mvix Media Player, either through the USB Connection, or the NDAS connection.

• This is a sample robocopy command for our illustration:

  Downloads are in C:\Users\Marcus\Downloads
  My Mvix Player is labeled as the H:\ with Movies going under H:\Movies

  My Robocopy command would be
  Robocopy c:\users\Marcus\Downloads H:\movies /E *

  This command will call robocopy to copy all files (noted by the * after /E) and directories (/E option includes all sub directories) under c:\users\Marcus\Downloads to H:\ Movies.

Now enter your robocopy entry into notepad, and it should look like this:

• Note: You can include multiple robocopy commands to copy content from other directories. As you see in this illustration, the script also copies the music folder over.
• Once you are finished entering your robocopy commands save the text file in c:\scripts and name it mvixcopy.bat. (Ensure this file does not have a .txt extension after the name, we need it to be a batch file so that it can be run by the Task Scheduler)
• At this point, you can double-click on the mvixcopy.bat file, and it should copy all your content to the Mvix Player. Please make sure that the Player is connected. (If the script shows error and/or fails, please check your syntax and your drive/directory locations).