[mythtv-users] Lost data on recordings -- can recover?

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Sat Jul 7 02:35:29 UTC 2007


On 07/06/2007 08:00 PM, Lan Barnes wrote:
> OK, I screwed the pooch. I did a reinstall, extracted the mysql data on my
> recordings, and proceded to save it on a partition that got reformatted.
> Now I have the recordings in their pristine format, but the new Myth
> install (very clean, thank you for asking) knows nothing about them.
>
> What are my options? Is there a way to get them into Myth some way?

myth.rebuilddatabase.pl and a media player (to identify shows) and a web
browser (to get title/subtitle/description from i.e. tv.com) and a lot
of time...

Mike


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