I have been recording all 12 seasons of "The Big Bang Theory" and I had most of the episodes recorded. Now The library ony shows one episode. I can look on my Synology NAS and the files are still there. I am thinking there might be a limit in the software to the number of episodes. Is there? If not best way to recover from a glitch.
I have never run into this issue. Here's what I see for 15 seasons of Criminal Minds:
What do you see when you click into the program? Is only that one episode available or all episodes?
Do you have two listing for the program? If one episode recorded off of something like Pluto, it might have a different program ID and you'd have to manually change it to be the same as the original one.
I used to see something like that. Now I see just the digit 1
And as mentioned I saw lots of files on the NAS. That was at 3:00 this morning and now there is only 2. I guess I accidentally caused The mass deletion. Not sure I know how I did that. Can anyone enlighten me so I don't do it again. In the mean time I can start collecting again.
Another question on this. I notice that the episodes that were recorded are not scheduled to record now. But the files are gone. How do I get the data base right again?
Edit pass on web UI under advanced and select re-record deleted
Great option THANKS. By The way I am thinking of writing a script to run every nite that will use rsync under linux to copy the .mpg files to a backup. Is there any advantage to also saving the .edl files or a better way than using rsync?
The sidecar EDL files are only present if you have enabled them under the experimental features. The nice thing about those is they are updated if you manually edit the commercial markers, so they reflect the markers in Channels' database. If you do not use other programs to skip/remove commercials, you can ignore, as they are created solely for third-party application purposes (like Plex, Kodi, etc.); Channels does not use those files itself.
As far as different/better than rsync, that is purely a personal choice. Personally, I find that rsync I pretty great at what it does, and includes a fair bit of smarts for interrupted/corrupted copy operations, that it would be my first choice. (Actually once OpenRsync is ready for distribution, I will probably switch over to that.)
Unless it's changed, that only works for recordings you delete after you enable that option in a pass. It's not retroactive.
You can check the DVR log. You probably trashed the show from within Channels, then emptied the trash or it emptied after the holding period you have defined. Channels DVR Trash is like a Recycle bin that empties itself after a defined number of days. One the trash is emptied, the recorded files are deleted from the disk.
It does use the .EDL files, but only for local content imports.
Yes, but I believe the OP was referring to those within Channels' own hierarchies. The EDL files stored alongside recordings that Channels makes itself are solely for the use of users and their third-party programs; Channels does not consume them, merely produces them.
You are referring to content Channels may consume; I was referring to content that Channels may produce.
Wow did not know that ... so I guess the only way is to regenerate the DB ?
That
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find every airing in the guide marked as Recorded and mark it as not recorded
or
what I do is use curl to mark all of the show episodes as not recorded
Not true.
Great I hate to have to regenerate the DB.
That number shows the count of unwatched episodes, not the count of recorded episodes (unless they're all marked as unwatched).
Some relevant settings to check on the DVR Web UI:
- If you edit the pass (via normal or advanced mode) what are the Keep settings set to?
- Similarly, on the Settings page, what is Recordings & Passes > Keep set to?
- Below that, what is Recordings & Passes > Remove Items From Trash After set to?