[mythtv-users] Undelete a show marked for deletion by mistake?

[John Pilkington]

On 17/12/2022 09:09, John Pilkington wrote:
> On 17/12/2022 04:22, A. F. Cano wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've deleted a show by mistake.  I know mythtv doesn't delete tha actual
>> file immediately, so I went to the directory and copied it right away,
>> but now I have a file that I can only play outside of mythtv, with
>> smplayer for instance.
>>
>> I've gone to the previously recorded section and found it but there is
>> no option in the menu to undelete it. Somehow I found an option
>> somewhere to allow re-recording it, but that won't help if it's never
>> re-broadcast.
>>
>> Is there a way to tell mythtv (v31 from deb-multimedia on debiqn
>> stable) to undelete a show.  I probably won't get a reply before mythtv
>> deletes this partucular show, so is there some way to re-input the file
>> into mythtv later?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Augustine

Amended version:
> 
> If you just want to play it, you could 

put the saved file, with a recognisable filename,

> into a MythTV 
> 'video' directory, 'scan for changes' and play as a video
> 
> or overwrite the file of an unwanted recording and run
> 
> mythcommflag -q --rebuild --file xxxxx_yyyymmddxxxx.ts
> 
> and m > Recording Options > change metadata as appropriate
> 
> but neither of these is likely to get back any metadata that you might 
> have lost.
> 
> HTH
> 
> John P
>