[mythtv-users] "The file for this recording cannot be found"

[Raymond Wagner]

Bobby Gill wrote:
> I was just editing a few old SNLs down to the bits to keep, and in the 
> middle of editing this one the FE just froze. I killed mythfrontend 
> process on it, noticed the backend had died (restarted w/script on its 
> own) and restarted mythfrontend, only to go into Watch Recordings and 
> when trying to play the one I was editing, getting "The file for this 
> recording cannot be found". Here's the relevant mythbackend.log output:
>
> 2009-03-12 23:51:27.446 Preview Error: Run() file not local: 
> '/GetPlaybackURL/UNABLE/TO/FIND/LOCAL/FILE/ON/mythbox/Saturday Night 
> Live-11.15.08- Untitled- Host Paul Rudd; Beyoncé performs..mpg'
>
> Did a quick ls | grep saturday and found it where it always has been 
> in the recording dir:
>
> /media/mythtv # ls | grep -i ben
> Saturday Night Live-11.01.08- Untitled- Host Ben Affleck; David Cook 
> performs..mpg
Those are not the same file.  Does the one mythbackend is claiming 
missing actually exist?
Those are not mythtv file names. Why are you running mythrename (without 
using the symlink option)?