[mythtv-users] Mythvideo: series suddenly renames itself

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Sat Jan 21 14:40:50 UTC 2012


On 01/21/2012 07:06 AM, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> On 21 January 2012 18:04, Robert McNamara<robert.mcnamara at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> 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).
> sounds like a limitation that could be easily overcome...
> would require an update of the schema though... multiple path entries
> per metadata entry/hash, when all paths are removed do you delete the
> lot (and only do so after finishing scanning the tree, so it covers
> the move of a file)

A planned change to the schema will allow multiple media files for any 
given recording or video.

Mike


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