Something terrible happened today. After I came back from work, as usually late, switched on the TV and the only thing I see among my recordings is Steve Dotto's series.... All the recorded episodes. The rest of the recordings were gone!
<br><br>- I thought it is a glitch and rebooted the PVR. It came back - no recordings.<br><br>I realized that all of the recordings must be lost and was so upset..... TV with all this advertising again..... I do not think my wife could have taken it any longer..
<br><br>What could explain a glitch, where not all of the recording are gone, but almost all of them, leaving only one group of recordings stay?<br><br>First thing I did after that was to look at the actual file system to make sure that the recordings are really gone....
<br><br>Thanks God they were there! Physically, the recordings are there, right where they belong, all renamed and with previews.... But not in the database.<br><br>After I realized that there is nothing I can do with it right now, I decided to "RESET" the whole thing.
<br><br>backed up the entire database, then<br><br>stopped mysql and backend<br><br>$mv /var/lib/mysql/mythconverg /var/lib/mysql/mythconverg_old<br>then created a new mythvonverg<br>then ran mythtv-setup again.<br><br>This time there were no shows at all - expected...
<br><br>Then $mv /var/lib/mysql/mythconverg_old /var/lib/mysql/mythconverg<br><br>Then started Mysql and backend again.<br><br>WHEN I STARTED MYTHTV again - nothing changed, all the settings were there, but only Steve Dotto showed up in the recordings.....
<br><br>I almost freaked out and pulled the plug on the whole thing and wanted to book some time off this weekend to reinstall everything from scratch..... I was not looking towards the entire day of compiling, installing, tweaking.. and most importantly, loosing recordings!
<br><br>And then, in a move of hopeless desperation, I clicked "View TV" to watch live TV for the last time on this installation.... TV played for a bit and then I exited to the main menu, looked into the media library for the last time, ALL THE RECORDINGS SHOWED UP!!!
<br><br>HOLY! I guess the only thing it took to fix this strange glitch was to launch the TV and view it for a while? <br><br>Did that happen to anybody else before?<br>