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Posted by RobM on May 14, 2008, 1:48 am
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Sorry, forget what I said about the deletion log entries having started with
a UUID. Looks like that was a red herring, as I didn't notice till now that I
had had the history sorted by title (the ones that started with a UUID were
old and probably temporary files associated with videos played through
'Online Spotlight' or some such). Once I sorted it by date, I could see that
every file I deleted was correctly logged in the history using its correct
name.
The interesting thing though is that, in addition to there (definitely)
being a deletion log entry for the one movie that still shows a {thumbnail,
star rating, 'Cast & More' option, and Other Showings}, there's a subsequent
(more recent) entry saying the movie was recorded. But if you open that up,
the details show the original recording date from long ago. (It's not like I
rerecorded it right after having deleted all those files!)
So it certainly looks like its somehow possible to get MCE to rerecognize
deleted files you've restored as having been recorded by it (and thus show
these additional choices/options), but the question is how?
(Even if the files were copies of ones recorded by someone else's MCE,
though, why would that be a reason to stop showing {thumbnail, star rating,
'Cast & More' option, and Other Showings}? The fact that someone else might
have used a DIFFERENT cable/satellite TV provider certainly wouldn't preclude
being able to display 'Other showings' by YOUR cable/satellite TV provider -
and thumbnail, star rating, and 'Cast & More' are obviously independent of
any particular cable/satellite TV provider since, AFAIK they come mostly from
the All Movie Guide.)
So how does one get these additional choices/options to show again?!
P.S. Sorry for the long convoluted posts! Just trying to provide all
possible clues I can. Really would appreciate anyone's possible insight!
"RobM" wrote:
> Dear oh dear, what have I done?
>
> After finding that running the defragmenter didn't help my poor fragmented
> drive, with its abundance (and nothing other than) (XP MCE 2005) TV/movie
> recordings on it, I thought perhaps deleting them all and restoring them from
> my backup drive might eliminate the fragmentation.
>
> Well, as it turns out, not only is the drive still just as fragmented
> afterwards, now MCE no longer show a thumbnail, star rating, or 'Cast & More'
> option for any of the movies, with the exception, strangely, of a single
> case, for which it continues to show this information (not sure why - it's
> not because that one was recorded since the restore - I deleted and restored
> it, just like the others).
>
> Out of curiousity, in case it might provide a clue, I checked
> 'Settings-TV-Recorder-History' and there were log entries of the form '
> was deleted from the computer on by another user or application',
> seemingly for each of the files I deleted and restored (even though I never
> started MCE after deleting the files - it wasn't until after the restore that
> I next started it).
>
> That immediately made me wonder whether there are perhaps hidden/protected
> operating system files associated with MCE recordings (lke the hidden
> thumbnails for music albums), but after turning the Explorer option off that
> hides such files, I didn't see any appear for either the one recording that
> MCE still shows a thumbnail, etc, or subsequent new recordings I've made
> since doing all this.
>
> So then I thought I'd search the registry for the one recording that MCE
> still shows a thumbnail (to see if there was a UUID associated with it), but
> couldn't find any such entry.
>
> That would appear to leave only one remaining possibility - that this
> additional information is (or, in my case, was and now no longer is, with
> exceptions as noted above) stored separately in an MCE/Media player database,
> as done for some of the extended information stored for music.
>
> In the case of music, base and extended information can be restored by right
> clicking on an album in WMP and clicking 'Update Album Info' or 'Find Album
> Info'. But WMP unfortunately doesn't appear to provide any such option for
> TV/movie recordings.
>
> And yet somehow..., somehow..., there's that one exception I mentioned, for
> which it continues to show a thumbnail, etc, despite my having deleted and
> restored that file, just like all the others.
>
> Does anyone know how to restore access to this info in MCE for all the other
> files?
>
> It's a real bummer to no longer have quick access to the 'Cast & More' info,
> in particular!
>
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