[mythtv-users] adding recordings to the database?

[Stephen Worthington]

On Mon, 29 Jan 2018 10:14:11 -0500, you wrote:

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>Jim Abernathy
>jfabernathy at gmail.com
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>> On Jan 28, 2018, at 10:47 PM, Stephen Worthington <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
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>> On Sun, 28 Jan 2018 18:42:36 -0500, you wrote:
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>>> I don? have this problem, but I? thinking ahead.  Suppose you have a bunch of TV recordings but you?e lost the database and your backup.  Is there a way to add the recordings to a new database and fresh install?
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>> No.  It would be possible to write a script to do it, but it would be
>> a fair bit of work and is not necessary.  Just put the recordings in a
>> videos directory and change the names on the files to represent what
>> they are.  If you use a name format that the metadata download
>> understands, then you can normally get the same sort of information
>> you would have had in the EPG data.
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>>> Second situation.  You have a lot of recordings, but your database backup is a few years old and missing a few of the recordings.  Is there a way to run a script to find recordings that are present but not in the database and then add them back in?
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>> The find_orphans.py script does this, or at least it will tell you
>> about recordings that have database and no recording file and vice
>> versus.  But it will not be able to recover database entries for
>> recordings missing that data - again, just move the files to videos
>> and rename them.
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>So I ran the find_orphans.py script just to see what it would find, expecting nothing and I found a good bit of stuff.
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>Let me see if I have this right.  Ophaned video files are file that are in the directories but not in the database, right?
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>Orphaned snapshots are the thumbnail files that exist in the directories, but not in the databased, right?
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>Some of the orphaned video files were programs I watched last week and then deleted.  Not sure how they end up as orphaned.
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>Jim A

Correct.  The normal way that recording files get orphaned is if you
have a database crash bad enough that you have to restore a earlier
database backup.  Any recordings made since the backup happened will
no longer have any database entries.