[mythtv-users] scan again

[Blue]

> On 11 May 2020, at 6:49 pm, mythtv-users-request at mythtv.org wrote:
> 
>>> Hi All
>>> I?m playing with a xubuntu test install of 31. (built from src)
>>> for the first part I just copied some movies into /store/Movies
>>> I scanned and played.
>>> I then mv?d them to /store/Movies/Myth-A
>>> I scanned again
>>> 
>>> frontend shows all the movies in base directory
>>> I can play the movies, even though they are not there
>>> No folder ?Myth-A? has been scanned
>>> 
>>> This is *not* the behaviour I expect, have come to appreciate or understand
>>> I can find no mention of this, what is happening
>> 
>> Are you using storage groups for the videos?  If so, then it does not
>> matter where in the storage groups a video file is, as long as it has
>> the same file name. 
> 
> I think Stephen is right that it's SG related; but, for the record, for 
> Videos the matching is surely on the file hash (which is a little fuzzy, 
> but that's not the issue here) ?
> 
>  So if you have multiple directory paths in a
>> storage group and move files between them, MythTV is not bothered and
>> will find the files.  This is the same way the storage groups for
>> recordings work.  The actual path to the files is not stored anywhere
>> in the database, and mythbackend will search the entire storage group
>> to find a specific file.
>> 
>> There are also different ways of displaying the video files - it
>> sounds like you are not using the one that displays the tree of where
>> they are.
>> 
>> I am still using v30, so it is also possible that there have been some
>> changes in v31.

I copied the next folder, Myth-B, there, scanned and everything is correct.
I’m much more comfortable, but I’m sure I uncovered a bug, just rare and not easily reproduced, so I’ll ignore it.
James