[mythtv-users] Moving recordings between storage directories

William Munson william_munson at bellsouth.net
Mon Jul 23 11:53:09 UTC 2007


Robin Gilks wrote:
> Greetings
>
> I'm looking to retire an old harddrive that is providing one of two
> storage directories on my system with a few gigs of shows on it.
>
> Having moved the shows themselves across to the 'primary' store and
> removed the old path in mythtv-setup, is there a simple way to update the
> database as to where the files now physically reside having shifted them?
>
> I guess its a one liner mysql statement but not having much of a clue
> about databases how would I do a global change of /mnt/store1 to
> /mnt/store2 ?
>
> Cheers
>
>   


If you are running 0.20 you just have to change the recordings direcory 
in mythtv-setup. If SVN then remove your old dir and add the new one to 
your list of storage directories. You should not have to do any SQL to 
move the files.




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