[mythtv-users] Delete and rerecord question

Paul Stillwell bigboi at wackywombats.com
Thu Feb 21 02:13:49 UTC 2013


On Feb 20, 2013, at 8:38 AM, Michael T. Dean wrote:

> On 02/20/2013 10:10 AM, Paul Stillwell wrote:
>> On Feb 19, 2013, at 5:09 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>> 
>>> On 02/19/2013 07:27 PM, Ronald Frazier wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 7:10 PM, Paul Stillwell wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> 
>>>>> It looks like one of my hard drives crashed last night. I removed it from the fstab so that it wouldn't get mounted when the system boots up. When I start mythfrontend, I get all these recordings that are greyed out and have an X next to them. I was going through the recordings and choosing "delete and rerecord", but then I thought I *might* be able to recover the recordings from the drive. If I am able to recover the recordings, what would happen if I put them into a valid storage group (that works) on another disk in the same system. Will they show up correctly?
>>>> Not if you've told myth to delete them they wont. But if you leave
>>>> them alone, retrieve the files, and put them in a different storage
>>>> group folder on the working drive, myth should be able to find them
>>>> just fine.
>>> Right.  The ones you haven't yet deleted can be put in any directory in any Storage Group as long as it's visible to the same host.
>>> 
>>> If you have deleted some of the ones you end up recovering, you can put them in Video Library (ideally after changing their file names so that Video Library can pull metadata - http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythVideo_File_Parsing ).
>> OK, thanks for the advice. If I am able to recover the recordings, should I put them all in a storage group and let find_orphans.py remove the ones not associated with anything in the database? I'm running 0.25.3 so I think find_orphans.py works with that version.
> 
> Yes, that would be the easiest way.  And, in theory, find_orphans.py should work fine with 0.26, too.
> 
> Mike
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Should the mythtv web page (http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Find_orphans.py) be updated to reflect that it works with 0.26?

Paul

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