[mythtv-users] Lost channel icons and names...

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Sun Apr 2 21:59:59 UTC 2006


On 04/02/2006 05:31 PM, Roland Roberts wrote:
> For some reason, it would not actually *update* the icon column in the
> channel table.  I took the somewhat extreme approach of deleting the
> contents of the table then running mythfilldatabase and it pulled in the
> channel info and icons from my lineup.

mythfilldatabase will only update the icon if its value is 'none' or 
''.  This is by design to allow you to store your icons where you 
want--I don't want mine in ~/.mythtv/channels.

You could also have done:

UPDATE channel SET icon = '';

and then ran the commands to import your icons.

Mike


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