[mythtv-users] How to induce complete amnesia for a series

[Jerome Yuzyk]

On Wednesday, November 21, 2018 11:07:42 AM MST Allen Edwards wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 10:03 AM Jay Harbeston (ISeePeople) <
> 
> jharbestonus at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Nov 21, 2018, at 12:03 PM, Doug Lytle <support at drdos.info> wrote:
> > >>>> I really want to make MythTV forget that it has ever recorded any of
> > 
> > the programs
> > 
> > > I believe you can do this on the Myth frontend by adding the recordings
> > 
> > to a playback group and then selecting the option on that group to
> > re-record (Going from memory)
> > 
> > > Doug
> > 
> > If the programs were still available and not deleted you could do that.
> > 
> >  However if they are not available you will need to touch the db records
> >  in
> > 
> > the oldrecorded table to set them to record again. I believe there are 2
> > fields that control whether or not to re-record.
> > 
> > You will need to verify your query into oldrecorded to make sure you only
> > do the ones you want to do.
> > 
> > I have done this in the past to rerecord those that I wanted.
> > 
> > Standard caveat… be cautious when you do this, making sure you are only
> > changing the ones you want to.
> 
> If I have a show and delete the show, the recording schedule still shows up
> in Mythweb and I can call it up and edit it to whatever I want. Safe.

Over the 12 years (as of yesterday!) I have run MythTV I have cleared out old 
recording rules several times.

I will have to look at the oldrecorded table. Ideally I'd like to delete all 
the old records but I don't know what other tables might need to have records 
removed to keep the database in sync. I'll start looking in my hobby time with 
a level of paranoia appropriate to my investment in the MythTV database. :)

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