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We had a huge electrical storm, which blew out my UPS (or else the UPS battery happened to die at the same time). All my desktops and external devices shut down.

After plugging everything back into a power strip and rebooting my MXLinux box, Catfish started from the start menu as per normal.

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When I issued 'sudo gsmartcontrol' command, it worked as expected.

My drives 'passed'. Not sure if there are any specific areas of the reports I shoulld be looking at for more info...

Sorry for not getting back sooner - I was out a couple days.

I have the current version of Catfish (4.20.1-0.1~mx23+1) from the repos.

GsmartControl shows none of my HDs are supported (even after refreshing all my devices).

Here is the QSI:

System:
Kernel: 6.1.0-33-amd64 [6.1.133-1] arch: x86 ...

Hope I'm posting this in the right place

Running MXLinux 23.6, (xfce) fully updated.

Haven't run Catfish for a while, but when I clicked on the start menu icon, nothing happens.

Here's what I get when I try to run catfish from a terminal

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You are right, of course. At the time I came up with that master plan, I doubt I had any recordings with colons in them (the classical music stuff is pretty recent), so the plan could have worked for windows users at that time.

So I'll be reformatting to EXT4, I guess. Funny that I am able to copy ...

I restored an MX-18.3 virtualbox machine I had, and tried to manage the copying of files through it. Alas no success. Also tried copying them in a zip file (that worked), but (as you said) when I tried to extract them, it wanted me to rename all the files.

I guess I could change the partitions to ...

Greetings!

I have read that one can't copy folders/files from Linux to an NTFS-formatted partition if there are colons in the filename. HOWEVER, I have a whole bunch of files that I created in MX-Linux which I copied to an external NTFS-formatted hard drive using PCManFM. Here's a sample of one ...

I don't know what happened - maybe SMPlayer had to think about the changes for awhile or something - but I'm getting video and sound on my regular user, and also video and sound on the test instance.

Maybe a restart was needed before the changes kicked in. But everything is rolling along nicely now ...

Thanks for taking an interest in this Stevo.

MPV was already installed.

I created a test user, switched to it and ran smplayer in terminal. I opened a video and played it just fine, albeit there was no sound. MPV was the multimedia engine selected under the Options->Preferences->General tab.

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After updating to MX-23, SMPlayer has been giving me problems. I have a separate /home partition, so the smplayer config files were the ones I was using before the upgrade.

It opens, but doesn't start. If I go to preferences and assign mplayer as the default multimedia engine (which is what I have ...