[mythtv-users] Dropping all metadata

[Greg Oliver]

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Greg <greg12866 at nycap.rr.com> wrote:
> On 11/15/2010 02:43 PM, Frans Grotepass wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> My mythtv setup has been running now for several months. During a
>> recent upgrade to 0.24 I read about configuring the metadata for the
>> vids. With many of the files having incorrect names, I did my first
>> jamu run with poorly named files. Which tables must be dropped from the
>> DB to clean up all the metadata? Is there also metadata in the files
>> themselves (like ID3 tags?) The naming convention has been altered and
>> the file names are now consistent (Thanks to vim and block mode
>> cutting and pasting).
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> What I have done in the past is create a temp directory and move all my
> video's to it,go into mythvideo ,and scan,and nothing should show up... Move
> your videos back,rescan and you should see mythvideo downloading the
> metadata..No need to touch the db...

Excellent idea!  I just tested changing permissions as well.  That's
another way to do it without moving any files.  Just make the
directory unreadable to the mythtv backend user.