Extracting Videos from Tablo External Hard Drive

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@zippy

And none of this activity occurs during bootup.

I believe it actually occurs during shutdown, and is read upon boot with a new (or factory reset) device.

@ken_clifton

Just running the Backup-tablo.sh bash script will not ensure a current Tablo.db

Correct, just pointing it’s a way to access it without disconnecting the drive and/or have a copy - but outdated is somewhat pointless.

@ken_clifton

But, it works, even if you have to browse around for the folder – if the database is not current.

This is much better than - Recovering Show from good drive/dead tablo, but if the DB is too outdated and you just gotta, this is a last resort attempt. I just tried to show it works, not recover many several recordings.

@ken_clifton

I teach Python with Qt, and it is on my list to create a GUI version with a tableView widget that shows the Recordings table, but then again, they might decide to change the database structure, again.

Thanks again. I only know enough to brows the DB… it was more than I needed to know to dig into it.