[mythtv] Recordings in subdirectories

[Steven Adeff]

On 2/5/06, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 02/05/2006 12:55 PM, Steven Adeff wrote:
> > I've sort of been doing this already, I symbolicly link archived shows
> > to subdirectories within my recordings directory and then add the file
> > to the db with a little script I wrote, it places the folder
> > information in with the file name in the db and everything works fine.
> >
> > I guess my point is, I don't understand what the patch is adding
> > (other than being able to use a completely different directory, if I'm
> > reading things right...?)
> >
>
> I'm not understanding which way you're doing things, but if you create a
> link in the recordings directory referring to a recording in some other
> directory (such that the basename contains no subdirectory information),
> everything works (assuming you use delete follows symlinks).  If,
> however, you change the basename to include subdirectory information,
> deleting and some other things will fail because the GetRecordBasename
> function strips all path information from the basename and returns only
> the filename (i.e. it assumes files are _not_ within subdirectories).
>
> Mike

Ah! gotcha, I have no desire to delete these recordings, so I never
tried, but that makes sense.

--
Steve