Liste alter Aufnahmen

[Ricki]

wo finde ich die Datei, in der die bereits aufgenommen Episoden gespeichert sind? Also die von SmartEPG genutzt wird um alte Folgen einer Serie nicht nochmal aufzunehmen.

[FireBird]

Das sind die Dateien File.db, FileText.db und FileTextString.db.

[keith_leitch]

This is the answer I was looking for; however, I've replaced those three files with older versions from April, and nothing seems to change in the FileDB list (from Option 6). Should it?

The problem I'm trying to troubleshoot is that, every so often, an event occurs that seems to erase the record of old recordings. I don't know what's causing it, and it's difficult to check the logs because I often don't notice for several weeks. I was hoping to start troubleshooting by identifying the files under discussion.

[FireBird]

If you stop SE, replace the 3 files and restart SE, you should see a difference.

[keith_leitch]

That's what I did. I will try again now.

I am also wondering: is it possible to append these files (perhaps through CAT)? There are some watched episodes logged before the "mystery event," and others after, so it would be nice to include both lists. the Text Strings file seems to start with a header, though, so it may not be possible.

[keith_leitch]

You are quite right, as always. I don't know why the list didn't change on my last attempt, but it did this time. One difference is that I also swapped the FileDB.log file, but I can't see that preventing the change. Anyway, thanks for the advice.

I've noticed that many of the filenames and descriptions are missing from the restored older lists, with only the datestamp, channel and status fields remaining. Not sure if this is normal.

Now, if I could find a way to concatenate both lists, I would be restored nearly to operational normality! I might experiment with that. Also, detecting when a list has been wiped would be useful. I thought at first that a script could to it. I was going to check if the file got smaller. Now that I think about it, the file size might also decrease whenever I manually delete a search. Thoughts?

[FireBird]

You can't concatenate these lists because these are proprietary databases with lots of pointers. It would need a tool to correctly merge different lists but that tool doesn't exist. Deleting searches doesn’t modify the FileDB list. I’m not 100% sure but I don’t think that there’s a way to delete entries from the FileDB, just to modify some flags.

[keith_leitch]

Yes, I think you're right. The FileDB list seems to be there to manually unblock entries on the list of files I have already watched. That is very convenient.

Thank you for all your advice. It seems that I can theoretically have a script watch for a decrease in the size of a .db file. I will have it alert me if that happens.