[mythtv-users] forget old recordings and re-record

[Michael T. Dean]

On 01/25/2016 12:37 PM, Greg wrote:
> On 01/25/2016 04:51 AM, Simon Hobson wrote:
>> Greg wrote:
>>
>>> I would like to forget a tv series and re-record it.. I have done it 
>>> before, but I can't seem to remember how.. A search of google list a 
>>> few users saying it can be done in mythweb,but that option seems to 
>>> be missing..
>>
>> >From memory ...
>> In frontend, TV, Previously Recorded, find any episode and (IIRC) 
>> press Enter (or whatever you've mapped to that) to get a menu where 
>> you have the option to "Forget all episodes".
>> This removes the "previously recorded" record from the DB, so there's 
>> nothing to match again and everything will get re-recorded if you 
>> still have an active rules for it.
>>
>> If you still have non-deloeted episodes, then (again from memory) ...
>> In TV, Manage Recordings (or Watch Recordings I think), highlight the 
>> series but don't right arrow to the episodes list. Press Menu twice 
>> (or it might be press Enter) and there's an option to add all the 
>> episodes to the playlist. Once there's something in the playlist 
>> there's an option to delete the playlist and the episodes will all be 
>> deleted - or you can just delete them one by one if there aren't many.
>>
>>
> Thanks that took care of it... I could have sworn there was a button 
> you check..

The only button you can "check" to allow re-recording episodes is the 
one in the recording rule to disable duplicate matching, but that won't 
re-record a TV series--that would cause MythTV to record every showing 
of the TV series (meaning you could get 5 copies of a single episode in 
a week if it airs that many times), so "Forget all episodes" is probably 
what you wanted and not disabled duplicate detection.

Mike