I think I learned something the hard way today, and I wanted to make sure I am understanding things correctly, and also see if there is something I could have done to avoid my problem. I've had MythTV setup for a couple of years now, with a BE/FE, and a couple of stand-alone FE's. I've pretty much always had my ripped DVD's and other videos (transcoded mythtv videos, and other assorted videos that I've downloaded over the years) saved out on a separate NAS server. Lately I've started working on importing IMDB information for my DVD's and videos, where applicable. I've also recently been playing around with running the frontend on an older Mac Mini running OS X. Today I wanted to see how some of the DVD's and videos played on the Mac Mini. So, I used Go --> Connect to Server under Finder to mount my NFS video share on the NAS server. I then went to the Media Settings --> Video Settings --> General section under Setup and entered in the directory where Finder had mounted the share. When I went to view the videos they weren't being listed correctly. I then went to Video Manager under Setup which forced a scan of the video folder that I had setup. As it was scanning it complained about missing videos under the NFS directory that I use on my Linux boxes. When it asked about removing from the database I selected "Yes to all". When this was complete the video listing were showing up correctly, but much to my disappointment I found that all the information that I had imported from IMDB was not showing up. Even when I went back to one of my Linux frontends where I had done a lot of the work all the IMDB information was gone.<br>
<br>After thinking about it a bit, I guess I understand why the information was gone; when I said "Yes to all" under the Video Manager on the Mac Mini it removed all the information from the database which I'm now assuming is stored with a full path name. Where my confusion comes in is that I always thought the video folder settings were frontend specific. I guess I've just been lucky that I always use the same naming convention when I mount my shares on the Linux boxes. My question is besides making sure that I always mount the NAS NFS share the same way under all systems, including the Mac, is there anything else I could have or should have done prevent the information from disappearing? Where I'm concerned is you never know when there could be some type of issue mounting the NFS share, and if someone other than myself was using a frontend they could easily wipe out all the information again with a simple "Yes to all".<br>
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