[mythtv-users] Listing of recordings past

[Brad Fuller]

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Nick Morrott <knowledgejunkie at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 24/04/2009, Brad Fuller <bradallenfuller at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I had to rebuild my dB, so I started from scratch. Now I have a
>>  working BE, yet I have recordings *in my recordings directory) that
>>  don't show up in MythTV's Recording listings. Of course this would be
>>  the case because the dB is new.
>>
>>  However,  I thought there was a way to get these orphans listed in the
>>  Recordings list. But, I can't find this procedure anywhere. Anyone
>>  have a pointer?
>
> Is 0xDEADBEEF OK?
>
> In older versions of MythTV (certainly pre storage groups, although
> they may well still work for latest 0.21-fixes) one could use the
> myth.find_orphans.pl and/or myth.rebuilddatabase.pl scripts in
> contrib/ to recreate the missing entries in the recorded table for
> files on disk (and vice versa).
>
> If using the script(s), do a run-through using the test option so that
> no changes are made but you are shown what will be done. It's also
> worth making a backup of the DB prior to running these scripts "just
> in case".


Thanks, I'll try the utils. (and backup first!)

Anybody use these utilities on the latest MythTV dB

-- 
Brad Fuller