[mythtv-users] manage recordings

[Peter Bennett]

On 1/3/22 5:51 PM, Mike Perkins wrote:
> On 03/01/2022 20:33, Klaus Becker wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> In my media library, I have about 50 recordings for me and about 250 
>> for my daughter. I have a group for me and another one for my 
>> daughter, but the recordings are alltogether in the same folder on my 
>> desktop computer.
>>
>> This is a problem when I am not at home and I want to regard films. 
>> The difficulty is to copy some of the films on my laptop.
>>
>> I have about 300 films in one folder on my desktop, how to find some 
>> of the 50 films for me I could copy on my laptop ?
>>
>> I use mythlink and I see the real name of the recordings in the 
>> folder "links". But it is not easy to get a list of the links and 
>> their targets. I already did it with readlink, but I cannot find 
>> again who to do. And even with this list, it is not easy to select 
>> and copy recordings.
>>
>> My daughter does not often regard here recordings. So the best way 
>> would be to move them to another dedicated folder. If I move them to 
>> "Videos", I shall loose all the informations about them. If possible, 
>> I would like to keep them.
>>
>> thanks for your hints
>>
> One way would be to define a separate Storage group for the recordings 
> you want and to allocate a different disk partition to it. That way 
> any future records will go to that disk and be much easier to handle 
> and move.
>
> That does not help your present situation, though. I think it is 
> possible to change the storage group of an existing recording but myth 
> will not move the file to the new disk, you would have to do that 
> yourself.
>
> One way that I might do it would be to use the mythlink 'links'. In a 
> GUI pull up two copies of File Manager and select the files you want 
> to move, then simply drag-and-drop them onto the new partition. This 
> ought to move the files rather than the links, somebody else can 
> clarify that.
>
Here is my script that does exactly that. It copies whatever group I 
have specified in ROAM_CATEGORIES (misnamed, I know).

https://github.com/bennettpeter/mythscripts/blob/master/install/opt/mythtv/bin/roamexport.sh

Other scripts it references are in the same directory.

The script which imports the database onto my laptop and fixes it so 
that the recordings will work is here. This assumes I have MythTV 
installed on the laptop so that I can access the recordings there:

https://github.com/bennettpeter/mythscripts/blob/master/install/opt/mythtv/bin/roamimport.sh

Peter