[mythtv-users] 'Recording Rule does not exist' - new problem. Ubuntu 18.04 Mythtv 31

plainface boy plainfaceboy at hotmail.com
Sat Jun 27 15:22:25 UTC 2020


Hi - I'm running Ubuntu 18.04 and Mythtv 31 (fresh install), previous versions working fine and 31 no different. I've got 100's of 'recordings' and 'videos' going gack around 10 years.

Just recently I seem to have lost the recording schedule info for most of my recordings. When I hit E, or use M and edit recording schedule I get a 'recording rule does not exist' message.
I can edit the metadata, but not the recording rule. This seems to means that I cannot edit the covers, or fanart if I want to.

I've not been through them all, but it looks like the oldest recordings (pre 2013) still have the recording info in, but as far as I can tell nothing since. All the videos are of course fine and I can edit artwork as normal. In the recordings screen, they all still show the recording date, and artwork is still present.

I've tried restoring to the oldest database backup I have (about a month ago) when I'm pretty sure everything was working, but I still have the issue. 

Does anyone know why this might have happened?
I've done a few updates recently - might they be the cause?
I would like to fix this if I can, so any help greatly appreciated.



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