Recordings Gone....

[caribbeanchild]

Every night when the automated EPG update occurs, it renames recordings-dump.xml to recordings-dump.xml.bak, and creates a new recordings-dump.xml, so you should have one of those two files available (unless you've deleted your GB-PVR directory and reinstalled).

So...if I do an EPG update a new recordings-dump.xml will be created?

I did delete the files.

[sub]

So...if I do an EPG update a new recordings-dump.xml will be created?

Yes, but only containing the recordings that are already in your database - so this wont help you.

I did delete the files.

Sorry, there is nothing built in that will help you with this. There are some utility that'll do the job on the wiki, but I've never used them myself.

[caribbeanchild]

Ok...I've tried the MpegImport utility thingy....and it crashes for me. Not a huge thing to lose the recordings I guess....they are still available in the Video Library.

Thanks for your help. Just thought there would be a solution.

[sub]

Just thought there would be a solution.

There is, but it depends on you not deleting these files.

[caribbeanchild]

As they say "You learn from your mistakes"....I pretty sure I won't do it again

[martint123]

"Restore from backups" .......

I have used that mpegimport thing and it worked well for me. AFAIR the current version even extracts the metadata from the file to return the description.

Maybe prod the author for assistance with the error??