[mythtv-users] MythTV 0.21 to 0.25 upgrade sequence questions

[Michael T. Dean]

On 05/02/2012 04:46 PM, Raymond Wagner wrote:
> On 5/2/2012 16:30, DFishburn wrote:
>
>> 4.  After running mythtv-setup, I then run mythtv-frontend which 
>> upgrades more of the database (videos and something else).
>>
>
> The plugins should update themselves fine however if your video 
> library is commercial content (DVDs, Bluray, migrated recordings), you 
> will likely want to flush those tables and start fresh.  There is a 
> thread describing all the tables you need to truncate to do so, but 
> I'm currently coming up empty trying to search for it.

Only safe to do /before/ upgrading to 0.25.  If you do this after 
upgrading to 0.25, it will completely break your database/system.

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/406462#406462
or (with more info)
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/512916#512916

Mike