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

[Jeremy Jones]

On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Jeremy Jones <jeremy.dwain.jones at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 6:51 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>>
>>


> 'deletia'
>>
>>
>>

> 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.
>>
>
> Solved.  Thanks Raymond. Your statement was just the clue I needed.

Here is the process:
Run mythlink with a flat directory structure on the naming convention so
that all the links show up in the same directory.  The using Thunar (other
file managers are probably similar) sort the view by the 'Type' column,
which contains the links actual location.  Then its just a matter of
scrolling down to the links that are on the drive in question to start the
search.

Jeremy
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://www.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/attachments/20140627/353565de/attachment.html>