[mythtv-users] failing hard drive - advice on recovering specific recordings - mythlink perhaps

[Raymond Wagner]

On 6/27/2014 7:46 PM, Jeremy Jones wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a failing HDD that will mount and work for a little while.  It
> has 3TB of recordings on it.  I am looking for a way to target the shows
> that I want to copy off of it instead of wearing it out trying to copy
> the whole drive.  I thought about using mythlink and then using the
> formatted names to pick out the show, but the problem is that I can't
> tell which shows are on that particular drive.
>
> Does anybody have an ideas?
>
> I don't want to take the other drives off-line to do this.  Is there a
> way to add the folder name that the files are in to the mythlink naming
> convention?

Links are only transparent to applications that are not intentionally 
looking for them.  Any decent file manager, or even 'ls', should allow 
you to see where the links are pointing.