[mythtv-users] Mythvideo: series suddenly renames itself

[Robert McNamara]

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 10:59 PM, Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> On Saturday, 21 January 2012, Gordon McCrae <gordon.mccrae at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> > It is in fact "looked at" again (at least in my 0.24.1 system). You get
> a message stating that it's found an entry with the same hash, but
> different name and updates the database entry to reflect the new file name.
> >
> > There's commentary in the Wiki that states "The location of any video
> content will be updated automatically based off a matching hash, with no
> loss of metadata, next time a Scan For Changes is triggered from the Watch
> Videos menu."
> >
> > What also happens though is that it also seems to flip-flop between the
> two names (assuming there's tow duplicate entries) each time you rescan.
> Raymond Wagner produced a script to remove duplicates blindly from the
> database so that there was only 1 unique entry.
> >
>
> None of which explain why if the same file is present twice, it is only
> showed once.
>
>
This is exactly what it means.  During the scan, if a new file is found
with the same hash as an existing file, the record is unhooked from the old
filename and hooked to the new filename.  When there are > 1 files with the
same hash, only one record/displayed item will ever exist.  This is a known
limitation/sacrifice to allow the renaming and moving of files without
losing the metadata (which was a long-standing feature request when I
implemented it-- this is the cost of such functionality).

Robert
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