[mythtv-users] mythArchive | move mpg's to different location but renamed

[Michael T. Dean]

On 10/18/2007 10:55 AM, Doug Young wrote:
> On 10/18/07, James Cummings <cummings.james at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Thanks to everyone who answered -- I experimented with mythrename (and was
>> frightened for a minute that the recordings would no longer appear in the
>> mythtv list of recordings.  But it was much more clever than I thought!  ;-)
>>    Since my desire is just occasionally to move specific shows/episodes to
>> long-term storage on a NAS drive, then I think this will work as it is.
>> (I'll just run mythrename occasionally then move files to new location then
>> delete them one by one in the mythtv interface.)
>>     
> If you are keeping the recordings, it's best (as Mike said) to use the
> --link option to create a human readable link rather than change the
> original filenames.
>
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/engine?list=mythtv&do=search_results&search_forum=all&search_string=human+readable+filenames&search_type=AND
>   

Definitely--especially as there are still some bugs when you actually
rename the files (i.e. if you put spaces in the filenames or ...). 
(Yes, I've submitted patches for those I know about, but as I don't
rename my files, I use --link, I haven't done any testing to identify
bugs.  I've only found the ones I found from reports on the lists.)

You can always go back, though...

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/256917#256917

Mike