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To quote the late American comedian Gilda Radner from one of her Saturday Night Live characters years ago: "Never mind!"

After further hair-pulling and using several choice words, I realized that over the previous weekend my ESET Internet Security program had asked me, in general, if I wanted to ...

Hi -

You were able to rescue me a few years ago and I hope you can now. First of all, I use a PS3 (much more reliable than the PS4 for streaming media files, IMHO) and it is hard-wired to my computer network. An older version of UMS was working just fine until this week, when it refused to find my ...

@mik_s -

DARN YOU'RE GOOD! It was indeed the database being corrupt and once I renamed the old folder it worked like a charm. It was on the C: drive and was hidden, for the record, as C:\ProgramData . (Of course, you DID say it was in C:\ProgramData the first time, but I cavalierly assumed that it ...

Hi @mik_s -

First of all, I GREATLY appreciate your extremely quick response....especially during what I assume is still the weekend where you live. That is very nice of you.

Regarding your suggestions:

-I checked Task Manager with UMS running, and indeed just one iteration of Java was running ...

Hi Folks -

Well, almost exactly one year after my last cry for help , I have another situation...but different in what occurs.

I use both a wired connection to my PS3 and a wireless one to PS4. (I have always preferred PS3's media player to PS4's....it's always been more reliable.) Things were ...

Wow! Thank you SO much for the quick response and help, @mik_s! That worked like magic! I have NO idea why/how that would have changed or what I would have done to cause it to change before I did the re-install, so I apologize if that was something that should have been obvious to me. It's just that ...

Hi there -

As the subject line indicates, UMS has suddenly refused to see either my PS4 or PS3 after I have used it for years. (I use a wired connection the PS3 more often, since I have experienced less lag on it and fewer issues in general.)

While I would sometimes use an older version in the ...