[mythtv-users] Myth can't find old recordings

Jared McIntyre jmcintyre at dfsoftware.com
Thu May 29 05:30:58 UTC 2008


>  >If it can find a show from Feb 16th, it's not DST.  Let me guess--you
>>upgraded to 0.21 sometime between Feb 4th and Feb 16th, right?
>>
>>If so, you just have to fix your storage group configuration.  The
>>directory that you used for 0.20 recordings needs to exist in the
>>Default storage group.  You can add it in mythtv-setup.
>
>It is quite possible that is when I made the switch. I don't really
>remember. However, the directory I'm recording into now, and the
>directory where the missing videos are is the same. Shouldn't it know
>to look there since it is finding newly recorded ones?

Turns out that my hostname changed at that time due to an OS upgrade, 
and the old recordings were still set to localhost which no longer 
exists as a setting on mythtv. So, I went in and changed all the 
records in the recorded table to the new host, and everything works.

Jared


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