[mythtv-users] MythWeb lost all of my preview icons for old recorded programs

Nathan A. Smith nasa01 at comcast.net
Sat Dec 15 00:05:02 UTC 2007


On Sun, 2007-12-09 at 08:14 -0500, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 12/09/2007 06:13 AM, Andrew Junev wrote:
> > I noticed that my MythWeb does not show .png previews for old Recorded
> > Programs any longer. If I record something new, I can see the .png
> > just fine. I checked my recorded programs storage folder and I could
> > see there both the new and the old preview .png's.
> > All recordings themself are available - I can watch both the new and
> > the old ones. 
> >
> > I assume the reason is that something went wrong with the database, as
> > I had some problems with my backend in the past. Therefore I ran
> > 'optimize_mythdb.pl' script but it didn't fix the problem.
> >
> > Now I want to manually check inside the database if the links to
> > preview files are still there. But I can't find the table itself -
> > does anybody know the name of the table I have to look into?
> >
> > I would also appreciate any other ideas on how to get the previews
> > back... :)
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> 
> First thing I'd try is:
> 
> rm /path/to/mythweb/data/cache/*
> 
> (If that directory doesn't exist, find out where the MythWeb local cache
> of previews exists.  I don't remember if it was different in 0.20.)  If
> that doesn't work, I'd repeat the above, and also try:
> 
> rm /path/to/recordings/*.png
> 
> (Make sure you have the ".png" after the * in the second one. ;)
Hi,

I was having the exact same problem....  It appeared after updating my
svn install.  I followed your suggestions above with no avail.  New png
files are created in the cache folder -- but all have size of 0.  PNG
files in the recording directory are not all recreated.  Any ideas why?

Nasa

> 
> Mike
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