[mythtv] Lost my recording metadata. Thoughts on avoiding in the

Kevin Kuphal kuphal at dls.net
Fri Feb 4 05:28:51 UTC 2005


Chris Pinkham wrote:

>>But, what I'm thinking is, should the system really be dumping metadata 
>>if it tries to auto-expire a file that doesn't exist? 
>>    
>>
>
>Just committed a fix to this to CVS.
>
>Basically, it will no longer delete the metadata from the database unless
>the file exists and was actually deleted.  If the file does not exist
>or was not deleted when unlink() was called, then the function will
>return and will not delete the data from the recorded and recordedmarkup
>tables.  To achieve this, I moved the "delete from recorded" into the
>thread and put some more code in there to check the result of some
>of the stages.
>  
>
Thanks.  I was able to rebuild most of my stuff manually but that should 
help in the future.

Kevin


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