Lost TV Data info of recordings - what happened?

[bienson]

Forgive me if this is a topic often discussed; but I'm a new GPVR as of this year.

I've been recording many shows and download the TV info from Zapit. What's causes GBPVR to no longer 'remember' the TV info and mapping of my recordings (i.e. title, description, date of recording)?

- I hear that moving the MPG while the service is up can cause this - makes sense b/c of a dangling reference. True?
- Q: If GBPVR can't access the folder/path, does it end up deleting the mapping and info about my records in it's DB? My volume was unaccesible (IDE issues) for a few reboots, but then I was able to have it show up again.

Q: Does updating the EPG in the Config program causes all my previous recording info to be dumped?

Q: Is there a way for me to get the TV data and reload/associate it with my recordings that are now 'unlinked'? i.e. recovery steps.

Sorry for the load of questions, but this has happened to me twice :mad: .

Thanks in advance.

[stefan]

- Q: If GBPVR can't access the folder/path, does it end up deleting the mapping and info about my records in it's DB?

Yes.

Q: Does updating the EPG in the Config program causes all my previous recording info to be dumped?

No.

Q: Is there a way for me to get the TV data and reload/associate it with my recordings that are now 'unlinked'? i.e. recovery steps.

This might work: http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Utility/MpegImport

[Ton]

A better fix (for the future) would be to run Xexport on each recording (from PostProcessing.bat). This saves all the recording info in a seprate ".dat" file (with the same name as the recording).

Then, whenever you have to rebuild the data, you can use XImport (yeah, shameless plug) to import the missing data back into the database.

This is what I do, and I really like that the recording info is always stored in a seperate file together with the recording...

//Ton

[bienson]

Thanks all for your answers and suggestion. I will try them out.