by kos129 » Tue Jan 17, 2012 12:25 am
Unfortunately it not longer seems to be possible to copy from Thompson boxes to the other HD boxes, as you have experienced all of the original recordings 'disappear' as far as the new box is concerned (from other posts I have seen the recordings are still there, the new box just ignores them). It seems as though sky have removed the code that converted from the pre-darwin format in a recent firmware update, preventing this method from working. Just to summarise, it is no longer possible to copy from a legacy device (Sky+ and Sky+ HD Thompson) to a darwin device (all other HD boxes) or vice verse (legacy -> legacy and darwin -> darwin do work however).
The only way for this to ever work in the future would be to convert the database format during the copy, which could bring in a fair few problems (Sky tend to vary the format between hardware and software versions, so any software that did this would have to keep up with Sky's updates).