OK, so I was TOTALLY excited to finally upgrade my Corel VideoStudio (Video Studio) to version Pro X3. After all, I'm running Windows 7 with a 4 core processor with hyper-threading, and the new version would take advantage of all that horsepower! YEAH!
So I bought the upgrade on a great price from Corel online. I did the "disk in mail" option because I expected to get a new manual, but no dice on the manual...that's OK, I have the manual from X2, so it will probably work.
So the installation also came with a new utility called DVD Factory Pro 2010, which has backup capability. I thought I could use the backup utility to burn data DVD's, since I want to get away from using Roxio (although I still use the lightscribe label creator). So I ran DVD Factory Pro 2010, and it immediately started scanning my system for media files. WHOA! I have TBs of data, and I didn't want that happening, but there was no way to stop this thing short of killing it in Task Manager. I killed it and thought, I'll never run that again.
Well, a short time later, I noticed this file with an extension of .event in one of my folders. Hmmm, I wonder where that came from. I then started noticing them everywhere..picture folders AND music folders. The ONLY thing that had changed was the installation of VideoStudio X3, so I had a pretty good idea where they were coming from, and this article at Corel proved it.
Well, I deleted all the .event files in my music folders. The next day my daughter had a DVD project for me to do, and so I ran DVD Factory Pro 2010 to try and create the DVD. It didn't work so well (I ended up using MovieFactory 7 SE), but the next day I noticed more of the .event files being created in NEW music folders I was creating.
I knew there had to be a monitor process of some sort running in the background, but Task Manager didn't show any such process with Corel in the description. I checked for a "service", but there was none that matched the description.
Upon further investigation in Task Manager, I stumbled across processes MLEMonitor and MetadataMgr. I was able to determine that these are the guys responsible for those darn .event files that are cluttering up my music folders. They are easy enough to kill in Task Manager, but you must kill MLEMonitor first, then kill MetadataMgr (otherwise, MLEMonitor will relaunch another instance of MetadataMgr). It even has it's own folder in the Corel program group > Program Files(x86)/Corel/MLE/.
I was also able to confirm that they are ONLY launched when DVD Factory Pro 2010 is run. There does not appear to be any way to configure these scanning processes NOT to run, and the program has no Preferences or Settings options. It appears that they will only scan your configured "Libraries", but since I have 12 folder locations (consisting of over 2TB of data) defined in my Music Library, it's going to scan and monitor them all (hence the reason I was getting .event files in folders I had just created). I looked for a way to deinstall JUST DVD Factory Pro 2010, but it does not show up in the uninstall list, and it appears to only be runnable from inside VideoStudio X3.
I registered as a user in the Corel support forum so I can reply to that thread with the answer on how to stop the .event files from being created, and will also suggest they modify it so that you can turn off the monitoring. Most people probably don't even know they have these .event files because they are hidden, but PowerUsers like me turn off all that hidden crap off in explorer.
