[mythtv-users] Fw: Re: A different perspective on the /and dupe listings

[mons37318 at mypacks.net]

oops, I unsubbed my regular address from the list...

-----Forwarded Message-----
>From: "Pamela J. Ashworth (webmail)" <pashworth at mindspring.com>
>Sent: Feb 27, 2008 1:55 PM
>To: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra at baylink.com>, myth <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
>Subject: Re: A different perspective on the /and dupe listings
>
>-----Original Message-----
>>From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra at baylink.com>
>
>>
>>On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 07:58:55PM +0000, Ben Firshman wrote:
>>> The frontend setup pages are for the frontend, mythtv-setup is for the  
>>> backend. I don't understand where the confusion is?
>>
>>The confusion comes from a place that's common to geeks:
>>
>
><snip>
>
>>For more on this, you can ask my sister, who is not a geek, but is
>>pretty sharp, and has been (mostly) managing her own Mythbox since I
>>built it at 0.18, 3 years ago.
>
>I haven't been following the conversation, but I can definitely say that when Jay says, Go into Setup, I almost always have to ask him "which one?"
>(and, come to think of it "why aren't they all in the same place?" and "do I have to shut down the front end or back end before I do this?")
>
>On another front
>
>A few weeks ago, I recorded two copies of one program. One from the listings and one as a backup, manually.
>Something odd happened.
>I got 4 shows.
>
>Actually I got only two - each was listed twice - both in mythfrontend and in... I think it's WinMyth or one of those remote Windows players.
>The database listed correctly - one entry for each 2 listings in the Recorded Programs list. And of course if you delete any one of them, you are deleting two.
>
>So I did. Delete one.
>
>Now I have 
>
>1 listing in the database (Recorded Programs in mythconverg)
>1 program file (mpg)
>2 listings in the frontend - one right after the other.
>(one of them has the stereo icon and one doesn't but that's the only difference. all changes made to one, reflect in the other.)
>
>Of course I also rebooted the machine.
>
>So, short of ripping out the entry in the database and typing it all back in by hand - how do I get rid of the duplicate Recorded Program listing?
>
>And am I the only one this happens to (it's happened before, long ago, but very very infrequently)
>
>--
>Pam from Boston
>www.bakulanews.com
>I'm not illiterate; just typing impaired.
> >')
>     ( ~)/
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Pam from Boston
www.bakulanews.com
I'm not illiterate; just typing impaired.
 >')
     ( ~)/
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