[mythtv] MythGame rescan drops favorites

Preston Crow pc-mythtv05a at crowcastle.net
Mon Aug 8 09:23:35 EDT 2005


On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 16:19 -0300, Greg Estabrooks wrote:
> > If you set some favorites in MythGame, or if you adjust the genre
> > entries in the database, those changes are lost if you scan for new
> > games.
> 
>  Yup, this is because the gamemetadata table(including favourite status) 
> gets wiped during the scan. It's not really a bug but was designed that way.
> I might consider a seperate status table at somepoint.

That's really bad.  If I add a new game, there's no way to get it to
show up without wiping all my settings, short of entering it into the
database manually.

You might want to look at how MythVideo handles its scan--nothing is
lost, but it detects any new or removed entries.

--PC



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