[mythtv-users] Rename

[Daryl McDonald]

On Dec 27, 2014 1:42 PM, "John Pilkington" <J.Pilk at tesco.net> wrote:
>
> On 27/12/14 16:13, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
>>
>> Hoi Daryl,
>>
>> Friday, December 26, 2014, 2:40:08 PM, you wrote:
>>
>>> Merry Christmas Mythizens, in an effort to retrieve an ".old"
>>> recording ( produced by transcoding) I renamed it through the GUI,
>>> which lost the recording to the front end. Do I need to become the
>>> mythtvuser to rename these files? If so how do I do that? Or, what
>>> is the mythtv sanctioned method of retrieving old recordings?   TIA.
Daryl.
>>
>>
>>
>> renaming on the prompt you do with mv. So mv <old name> <new name>.
>> With this command rights are unaffected, but to be sure check the
>> right named recording is owned by the mythtv-user and has at least 644
>> rights (readable by everybody and writable by the user)
>> If the right named recording is pressent again, mythtv will
>> automatically notice this.
>>
>> Tot mails,
>>    Hika
>
>
>
> ... but it will probably still have the seektable and size of the
transcoded file until you do a mythcommflag --rebuild, and perhaps a
mythutil  --clearcutlist.
>
> But I'm not clear how you 'lost' the file; did you copy the .old file
over the transcoded one?  Was the transcoded one visible?  Were their
permissions the same?  Is the file name now really the one that myth
expects, with no extra/missing characters?
>
> John
>
>
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John, What I did was open "files" in Ubuntu navigate to recordings and left
click on the recording in question and click on rename and removed the .old
then same process to add .tcd (for transcoded) to the ad free recording,
now both display a White myth file id while others in "ls -al" show pink,
except other .old files.

Hoi Hika, the ownership remains mythtv: mythtv and the permissions look
like the other recordings as mentioned above only the "201412182200000.mpg"
is now white while other file numbers present pink. I'm guessing this color
difference makes it visible or not to myth somehow?
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