[mythtv-users] Not really a Myth question...

[Kevin Ross]

  On 08/23/2010 03:46 PM, Kevin Ross wrote:
>  On 08/23/2010 03:29 PM, Paul Friedrichsmeyer wrote:
>> How do I move those files back to their original location with their 
>> original file names?  Or am I screwed and I am going to have to move 
>> them manually or say to heck with it? :)
>
> On my system, the file sizes are unique enough to use them as unique 
> identifiers.  So:
>
> mysql -u mythtv -p mythconverg
>
> select basename, filesize from recorded;
>
> Should give you a list of the original filenames with their 
> filesizes.  I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to find a way 
> to automate renaming the files back to their proper name based on the 
> output of the above command.

I should add that the above assumes you put all your recordings into a 
single directory.  If you have multiple storage groups, you'll need to 
join to the storagegroup table on the storagegroup column in the 
recorded table to get the directory name for each recording.

Hope this helps!
-- Kevin