I tried installing the beta, but it couldn't "see" the lost films. Before I put in the beta, I messed around on single player (after the multi films), and those films worked fine. With the beta, I just recorded a multiplayer film (tcpip hosted, one player), and it worked fine, and I went back to 1.5.1 and recorded a multiplayer film (tcpip hosted, one player), and it worked fine (that is, there is a film, and I can view it).
So what's the deal with these mysterious film files that I can't view?
Actually, on closer inspection, all these new film files are only 64 bytes (actually, strangely enough, it says "4 KB on disk (64 bytes)." Whereas the other films are more variable, like 2,924 Bytes (a short test game).
So it seems that during the session that I saved these recordings, myth somehow saved NOT the film, but these 64 byte oddities (that have the same icon/type as films?). So the answer to my question is that these films are not recoverable; what's left is probably just this junk that got saved somehow.
This makes me very sad
but oh well. thanks for your reply.
ps- the games i played were the first since i installed 1.5.1. In fact, they were probably the very very first session of 1.5.1 (and this was a rather messy older copied version of myth from an old computer to a new one that I upgraded to 1.5.1 on macosX (the old computer was classic)).
If I had to guess, I would suspect that this is maybe (hopefully) a one-time problem that has something to do with the peculiar circumstances of my installation, and that once Myth has had a chance to run and quit, the problem is no more. (if any of that makes sense)
I think it's some kind of bug, my Myth and another's were affected too and half of my films were overwritten and it kept saving as 64bytes (empty files).
Try making a folder in the recordings folder, moving all your films into there, start Myth2, play a game, go to the Films menu, delete Last Recording, close M2, start it again and see whether it can save & view a film correctly again.
sounds to me like the old problem that occurs when you try to rename a "last recording" film outside of the myth interace. all subsequent films will be empty (64byte files) until you clear it out and start again as described by Eddaweaver
