[mythtv-users] Dropping all metadata

[Greg]

On 11/15/2010 05:23 PM, Greg Oliver wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Greg<greg12866 at nycap.rr.com>  wrote:
>> On 11/15/2010 02:43 PM, Frans Grotepass wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> My mythtv setup has been running now for several months. During a
>>> recent upgrade to 0.24 I read about configuring the metadata for the
>>> vids. With many of the files having incorrect names, I did my first
>>> jamu run with poorly named files. Which tables must be dropped from the
>>> DB to clean up all the metadata? Is there also metadata in the files
>>> themselves (like ID3 tags?) The naming convention has been altered and
>>> the file names are now consistent (Thanks to vim and block mode
>>> cutting and pasting).
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>> What I have done in the past is create a temp directory and move all my
>> video's to it,go into mythvideo ,and scan,and nothing should show up... Move
>> your videos back,rescan and you should see mythvideo downloading the
>> metadata..No need to touch the db...
> Excellent idea!  I just tested changing permissions as well.  That's
> another way to do it without moving any files.  Just make the
> directory unreadable to the mythtv backend user.
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That's another good idea.. I will give that a try the next time the need 
arises...