database braindeath?

[JohnInSJ]

Wow this is a new one for me. I did not move my recording directory, or change anything in GBPVR, but I did add a new drive, and made a video folder/archive on it.
After that, GBPVR tells me I have no pending recordings (hey, I had 70!) and it forgot about half of the shows it had recorded.

Panic!

The files were still there of course, just GBPVR forgot all about them in its database.

I recovered 80% of the descriptions using the xml embedded in the header thing, but 20-30 recordings had no xml in them...

Anyway, any idea why that might happen? Any chance a small xml file with the show info could be written to the recording folder along with the file?

[wtg]

Did the drive letter change on the existing drive after installing the new one? If so, then when starting gbpvr and going into the recordings folder, any file it can't find, it deletes it from the database.

[JohnInSJ]

Did the drive letter change on the existing drive after installing the new one? If so, then when starting gbpvr and going into the recordings folder, any file it can't find, it deletes it from the database.

Nope... nothing changed at all to the drive letters, they are the same. In fact, some (but not all) of the recordings were still in the database and the ready list.

Like I said, it was weird. *All* the pending recordings scheduled for the next 6 days just went away too - had to go into config and re-download the EPG to get them back.

So, something very bad happened to the database, and there was no backup, because I didnt make one, and gbpvr does not make one either. Just poof.

[stefan]

GBPVR ususally makes a backup of the gbpvr.mdb called gbpvr.mdb.retained. However, someone said that on the wiki there is a utility (don't remember now what it's called) to let you import recordings back into the database.

[JohnInSJ]

Right, I did the recovery thing already, as I said in the first post. I'm not asking about how to recover, just trying to understand what happened. Sounds like it was just a random event.

I'll keep an eye on the little bugger and see if he blows his stack again.

[stefan]

Sorry, since you wrote that you had like 20 recording that you couldn't import, I thought that you wanted help with importing them too. That's what the utility is for. Not that it imports the descriptions, but you can at least access the files from the recordings menu.

http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Utility/MpegImport

[JohnInSJ]

Ah - cool thanks... I just moved the orphans to the video archive drive, they show up (In XRecord anyway) in the right show group (category?) just with the mpeg file name.