[mythtv-users] need help on recovering files

[Joseph A. Caputo]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org]On Behalf Of bstoneaz
> Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 3:34 PM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: [mythtv-users] need help on recovering files
>
>
> I was playing with the transcoder and didn't realize it was
> leaving a trail
> of xxx.nuv.old original recordings.  So the drive unexpectedly filled up
> quickly while I was on vacation and autodeleter worked and
> deleted a lot of
> .nuv files for me.
>
> So fortunately I have a bunch of .nuv.old files left to watch, but when I
> renamed them to .nuv, mythtv doesn't show them in the TV listings.  I
> thought the .nuv files were a wrapper containing the program info so myth
> would just pick them up, but that wasn't the case.
>
> Is there any way I can recover these to watch them through mythtv?

Try the 'myth.rebuilddatabase.pl' script in the 'contrib' directory of the
source distribution.

-JAC