[mythtv-users] Help, database corrupted after connecting with a newer frontend

[Ian Forde]

On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 14:54 -0400, Donavan Stanley wrote:
> On Apr 2, 2005 6:59 PM, Ian Forde <ian at duckland.org> wrote:
> > Having said that, I just looked in mythtv/programs/mythfrontend/ and
> > didn't see any dbcheck.cpp file (as one would when looking in
> > mythvideo/mythvideo/dbcheck.cpp, mythmusic/mythmusic/dbcheck.cpp, and
> > mythphone/mythphone/dbcheck.cpp.)  So I'm not convinced that that's what
> > you're seeing.  Did you start a backend 0.16 process on your frontend
> > box?
> 
> You're looking in the wrong place.  mythfrontend does upgrade the
> database, this is by design and working as intended.

(Meant for the list?)

Then I'm guessing it's mythtv/libs/libmythtv/dbcheck.cpp.  What's the
reasoning here for having the frontend upgrade the db?  Just curious.

	-I