Recently my Knoppmyth had a huge crash. My recent recordings and listings were gone from one moment to another. At first, I tried to fix the mySQL-Database, but it did not quite work out.

After all, I had to to do a reinstall (R5C7) in order to get the machine working again. Of course, I did a backup before.

Now, I have my recent recordings in the myth/tv folder, but they are still not shown in the frontend, instead I found some recordings, which I have deleted long time ago.

I have heard from the option, to link the missing recordings with the myth/pretty folder and I tried to fix this over this option. Still again, I have not suceeded. The command mythrebuild is not quite helpful either.

Since my Linux knowledge is not very pro, I would like to know, if there is a simple way to link all missing files to the frontend?

Hi,
Assuming you had R5C7 installed the /myth/tv files should be .mpg

Do this as user mythtv.. because of ownership.

if you do an $ ls -al /myth/pretty there should be a listing as:
Something you Have Recorded - 2006-07-16, 8-02 PM.mpg -> /myth/tv/2038_20060716200200.mpg

which is a link from pretty to tv. You don't want the link, you want the file /myth/tv/2038_20060716200200.mpg and the link name of
Something you Have Recorded

put that together as:
cp /myth/tv/2038_20060716200200.mpg "/myth/video/Something you Have Recorded"

The quotes are because there are spaces between title words and that is not allowed.

while you are at it, copy a cover picture also,
cp /myth/tv/2038_20060716200200.mpg.png /myth/video/.covers/My Recording Cover (make your own name for a lable)

Now when you do a scan for videos, you can attach the png to the movie. If the pretty folder gets messed up, you have to watch the recording to give it a name.
Mike

Problem solved, although not quite:
I just moved the missing recordings over to the video folder. So I have to do a little guessing, when I am watching a recording. At least, it works.

Hi,

Did not the recording links show up using ls -al /myth/pretty as I had outlined previously?

Mike

[quote="mjl"]Hi,

Did not the recording links show up using [color=green]ls -al /myth/pretty[/color] as I had outlined previously?

Mike[/quote]

Yes they did, but only the recordings since my reinstall.

Hi,

Bummer, but do (as mythtv) save all the .nuv.png's. move them to a folder in /myth/gallery/new-directory/ Then you can look at the images and figure out what show maybe and the date code will match up with the real video. You may not have the exact titles but something that you can understand. Then [color=green]cp /myth/gallery/new-directory/identified.png /myth/video/.covers/Your_Label.png[/color] Don't remove it until you have renamed the video to match.

Future plan if you ever upgrade another machine from an A series do an [color=green]ls -al /myth/pretty > /home/mythtv/pretty.list[/color] then do a backup before upgrade. Then you should have the needed tools.

Mike