[mythtv-users] Rename

[John Pilkington]

On 27/12/14 16:13, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
> Hoi Daryl,
>
> Friday, December 26, 2014, 2:40:08 PM, you wrote:
>
>> Merry Christmas Mythizens, in an effort to retrieve an ".old"
>> recording ( produced by transcoding) I renamed it through the GUI,
>> which lost the recording to the front end. Do I need to become the
>> mythtvuser to rename these files? If so how do I do that? Or, what
>> is the mythtv sanctioned method of retrieving old recordings?   TIA. Daryl.
>
>
> renaming on the prompt you do with mv. So mv <old name> <new name>.
> With this command rights are unaffected, but to be sure check the
> right named recording is owned by the mythtv-user and has at least 644
> rights (readable by everybody and writable by the user)
> If the right named recording is pressent again, mythtv will
> automatically notice this.
>
> Tot mails,
>    Hika


... but it will probably still have the seektable and size of the 
transcoded file until you do a mythcommflag --rebuild, and perhaps a 
mythutil  --clearcutlist.

But I'm not clear how you 'lost' the file; did you copy the .old file 
over the transcoded one?  Was the transcoded one visible?  Were their 
permissions the same?  Is the file name now really the one that myth 
expects, with no extra/missing characters?

John