[mythtv-users] Metadata still

[James Linder]

Hi

I know metadata is broken. Over the years I've had endless heartache so what I'm asking is if anybody knows of a workaround:

I'm saving some of the Doc Martin episodes.

I saved 'Doc Martin 9x04.avi' as 'Doc Martin 9x05.avi' by accident.
Of course the meta data retrieved was for 9x05 not 9x04.
I renamed 9x05 as 9x04 populated with 9x03, correct 9x05, 9x06 and 9x07.

[sandypit] /home/jam [1003]% md5sum /store/Movies/Myth-D/Doc\ Martin\ 9*avi
0ca1346e72f3fa0b71e101174f6ef053  /store/Movies/Myth-D/Doc Martin 9x03.avi
3ffd0aa41fbfe8915d369b35edb5b8e7  /store/Movies/Myth-D/Doc Martin 9x04.avi
3ad670f9aab5bed662aa034b34804246  /store/Movies/Myth-D/Doc Martin 9x05.avi
bcdff50b663e9819394470dae4b12a44  /store/Movies/Myth-D/Doc Martin 9x06.avi
9751bfa47e643445022d9f988dca75d6  /store/Movies/Myth-D/Doc Martin 9x07.avi 

After much fussing around, restoring this AM backup, scanning on another machine I eventually got 5 episodes with correct meta data, watchable too.

I did a scan with a comletely new movie and
9x05 and 9x06 no longer appear in the listings !!!!!!! (but ofcourse are still present)

It has bitten me so many times I wrote a hashDups:

[sandypit] /store/Movies/Myth-D [1007]% ~/bin/hashDups
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now doing names
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[number of files] 77
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now doing hash on files
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now doing hash check
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Checking the entire Movies archive:
[sandypit] /store/Movies [1009]% ~/bin/hashDups
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now doing names
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[number of files] 1333
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now doing hash on files
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now doing hash check
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[targ] ./Myth-R/Red Dog.avi                     410b4e48418d3fa6
 [dup] ./Myth-R/red.avi

Any suggestions .. please
James