mike,<br><br>that was exactly it. i did exactly as you said and old recordings are back.<br><br>much thanks!!!<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/18/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael T. Dean</b> <<a href="mailto:mtdean@thirdcontact.com">
mtdean@thirdcontact.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On 06/18/2007 07:12 AM, Craig Yuen wrote:<br>> i'm building a new frontend/backend system using ubuntu
7.04/mythtv<br>> 0.20. i've extracted the mythtv data from the database on the old<br>> system and restored it to the new one and have copied all the old<br>> recordings. when i run the frontend, i see the old recordings listed
<br>> but they can't be played. i can play new recordings. the frontend<br>> gives the following messages:<br>><br>...<br>> 2007-06-18 02:51:28.257 RingBuf(/): Invalid file (fd -1) when opening '/'.
<br><br>Seems somebody imported a 0.18.1 database into an /already existing/<br>0.20 database (i.e. created a new 0.20 database and then imported<br>data). Therefore, Myth did /not/ upgrade the database data to its new<br>
format...<br><br>So, right now you have a mess of old and new format data. The best bet<br>is to start with your 0.18.1 DB (backup and then drop the current DB and<br>import the 0.18.1 DB), let Myth upgrade it (by running mythtv-setup),
<br>then bring in the new recordings, if they're worth the trouble (I'd<br>recommend using <a href="http://myth.rebuilddatabase.pl">myth.rebuilddatabase.pl</a>). If you only have a few<br>off-season recordings since the upgrade, I'd just re-record them.
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