[mythtv-users] ongoing mythtv migration problems: how can I view my recordings?

[Michael T. Dean]

  On 01/24/2011 11:53 PM, James Miller wrote:
> Curse the day I ever decided to migrate my mythbuntu installation to a 
> new machine without using clonezilla to just clone the old machine's 
> disks to the new. It's been nothing but one headache after another. 
> Whether that's owing to changes to mythtv since I set up the original 
> system (about 3 years ago) or my own ineptness, I don't know. But I've 
> tried everything I can think of on this problem and cannot find the 
> solution. Description of the problem follows.
>
> When I watch live TV on the newly-installed system, everything I watch 
> live gets saved to /var/lib/mythtv/live-tv. And it is only that 
> directory's contents, apparently, that are displayed when, using the 
> frontend, I go to media library > watch recordings. None of the 
> content of the /var/lib/mythtv/recordings directory which I copied 
> over from the old mythtv to the new, nor any new recording I've made 
> on the new system--which wind up in the recordings directory--are 
> available when I follow media library > watch recordings. I know it's 
> a separate problem that I cannot find old recordings from my previous 
> myth box--something I think I screwed up big time and will need to 
> post about later--but I don't see why I'm unable to access new 
> recordings made on this new box.
>
> I would appreciate any pointers anyone might give for straightening 
> out the problem of recordings going into a directory that seems 
> inaccessible from media library > watch recordings.

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Frequently_Asked_Questions#Why_aren.27t_my_new_recordings_showing_up_in_Watch_Recordings.3F

perhaps?

Mike