[mythtv-users] Moving file out of recordings

[David Schmidt]

On 8/10/07, Ryan Steffes <rbsteffes at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/9/07, Robin Smith <1canuck2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > There may be a more elegant solution, but you could copy it to get it
> > in MythVideo, then delete the version left in recordings through the
> > Myth GUI
> >
> > On 8/9/07, Michelle Dupuis <support at ocg.ca> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > I recorded a movie and the file is in the /storage/recordings.  I would like
> > > to move it to /storage/movies and have it in my movie library.
> > >
> > > Can I just move the file in the OS, or will Myth get screwed up if the file
> > > disappears from the recordings directory?
> > >
> > > MD
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>
> You can certainly do either of those, but you may be happier
> (particularly with the size of the file) if you use something like
> nuvexport to transcode it first, and then delete it out of recordings.
>
> Another option is to just move it and use the myth.find_orphans.pl in
> contrib to clean up the database.
>

And in any case, don't forget that after copying it, you won't see it
in all the possible MythVideo views until you go into Setup/Video
Manager to rescan the meta-data.

Had to search archives for quite a while to find that one about a week ago....