Is there a way to promote backup files to be used by flash recovery area algorithms?

Hello,

I have an RMAN script that previously used format commands to pattern backup filenames to be more human readible.  The files were written to the FRA but because of the format use, the files are not used by the FRA algorithms.  Querying v$flash_recovery_area_usage for example returns a number of zeroes (except for archivelogs).

I tried modifying the script to remove the format commands hoping that future backups would be included.  Unfortunately this appears to not be the case.  I also have level 0 incremental backups that are not included.

I tried catalog recovery area but only got "no files found to be unknown to the database" and a series of :RMAN-07527: Reason: File was not created using DB_RECOVERY_FILE_DEST initialization parameter.