ok I am dumb!

[gk1]

I blew up my system, and had to reinstall. I can not get the previously recorded videos to import.

[Opus4]

Do you mean that you are trying to get your old recordings to be recognized as recordings? To do that, you will need to have your old wiz.bin, since that contains the database of recordings & associated EPG info. If you don't have the old wiz.bin, then there is no EPG data to connect the recordings to. I suggest making bakcups of at least wiz.bin and the properties files in the future.

If you do have the old wiz.bin file, then perhaps see the sticky topic in this forum about moving files.

- Andy

[gk1]

Because I could not use wiz.bak, i said screw it and blew it all away.

I was trying to get comskip working, and had comskipmon running, and the sage service. it all went south for some reason. I restarted the system, and it wanted me to reconfigure, so i knew something was wrong. I stopped everything, and put back the settings file, and the wiz.bak > wiz.bin. It blew up again. so I really foobar'd it good.

Oh well, luckily there was only a couple of recorded shows there.

next time i make a backup.

Thanks

[Brent]

Obviously too late for this time, but in case its useful for you in the future. I do the following to back up SageTV whenever I am making changes, adding a plugin etc.

BACKING UP SAGETV

• Exit SageTV and if you are running SageTV as a service, be sure you stop the service as well.
• Open Windows Explorer and head to your SageTV install folder (typically something like c:\Program Files\SageTV\SageTV
• Add a new directory and name it something like C:\Program Files\SageTV Backup\
• Copy the SageTV\SageTV directory to your backup directory. I save a different backup for each time I upgrade so I can go back a few versions if needed.
• That's it. If you ever need to restore your last version, just copy from the backup directory to SageTV\SageTV\ directory.

I also do an image backup of the C drive occasionally to another drive in case of drive failure.