<BR><BR><B><I>"Michael T. Dean" <mtdean@thirdcontact.com></I></B> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">On 11/21/2007 09:21 AM, lanas wrote:<BR>> On Tuesday, 20 Nov 2007 06:14:47 -0500, "Michael T. Dean" wrote :<BR>> <BR>>>> So using the UI will just change the DB entry and will not try to<BR>>>> move things around or do any cross-referencing at all.<BR>>> Right. It's still up to you to move the recordings to the new<BR>>> location.<BR>> I did a simple test by creating a /storage/otherVids directory and<BR>> moving two movies in there. After restarting Myth, the video listing<BR>> still got the two moved movies but wouldn't play them. All right. I<BR>> ran the video manager, specifying to delete all movies that are not<BR>> found, after which the listing simply had two folders (videos and<BR>> otherVids). So this is quite OK but, all IMDB info
of the moved movies<BR>> was lost. Is there a way to keep that info when doing such a move ?<BR><BR>You know, this entire thread was talking about moving recoridngs, not<BR>about moving MythVideo videos. Therefore, the advice wasn't relevant to<BR>what you're trying to do.<BR><BR>Recordings are stored without location information in the DB. Instead,<BR>they all must live in the one recording directory specified in settings<BR>(or, if using SVN trunk, must live in one of the directories in the<BR>local storage groups).<BR><BR>MythVideo videos are stored with absolute paths in the DB. If you move<BR>the file, the path must be updated. This may be possible through the<BR>Video Manager (but it's been a long time since I've been in there, so I<BR>can't say for sure without checking, but I'll let you check, instead). <BR>If so, it's a one-by-one process. To "move" them all, you'll probably<BR>need to edit the DB data
directly.<BR><BR>Mike<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>mythtv-users mailing list<BR>mythtv-users@mythtv.org<BR><A href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</A><BR></BLOCKQUOTE> <div> </div> <div>Hmm, this seems odd to me.</div> <div>I know when I want to look at another hard drive full of videos that I have gotten (external drive) I just mount it underneath the "videos" directory.</div> <div>MythVideo then happily presents me with a complete list of all the videos.</div> <div>I also mount my bittorrent download directory under there so that as soon as the download is done I can watch it.</div> <div>It does seem to take awhile to come up when I have a big drive mounted so maybe it is updating it's information on the fly? I thought it was just trying to match up posters but..</div> <div><BR> </div><p> 
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