[mythtv-users] ongoing mythtv migration problems: how can I view my recordings?

[James Miller]

Curse the day I ever decided to migrate my mythbuntu installation to a new 
machine without using clonezilla to just clone the old machine's disks to 
the new. It's been nothing but one headache after another. Whether that's 
owing to changes to mythtv since I set up the original system (about 3 
years ago) or my own ineptness, I don't know. But I've tried everything I 
can think of on this problem and cannot find the solution. Description of 
the problem follows.

When I watch live TV on the newly-installed system, everything I watch 
live gets saved to /var/lib/mythtv/live-tv. And it is only that 
directory's contents, apparently, that are displayed when, using the 
frontend, I go to media library > watch recordings. None of the content of 
the /var/lib/mythtv/recordings directory which I copied over from the old 
mythtv to the new, nor any new recording I've made on the new 
system--which wind up in the recordings directory--are available when I 
follow media library > watch recordings. I know it's a separate problem 
that I cannot find old recordings from my previous myth box--something I 
think I screwed up big time and will need to post about later--but I don't 
see why I'm unable to access new recordings made on this new box.

I would appreciate any pointers anyone might give for straightening out 
the problem of recordings going into a directory that seems inaccessible 
from media library > watch recordings.

Thank you,
James