[mythtv] Patch to DO deletion when file doesn't exit

[Isaac Richards]

On Wednesday 16 February 2005 05:39 pm, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> Daniel Thor Kristjansson wrote:
> >On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Mark wrote:
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> >]The current behaviour appears to be if the file of a recording doesn't
> >]exist then the backend will refuse to remove the data from the database.
> >]I can't see any sense in this, what else would you want to do with
> >]useless metadata?
> >]How else do I get rid of these darn empty programs?
> >]
> >]Patch attched leaves the "file didn't exist" warning in, but now removes
> >]the metadata too.
> >]
> >]It's trivial, but hasn't been tested more than once
> >
> >Wouldn't it be just as trivial to add some code to TVRec to check if
> >the recorder started before inserting metadata?
>
> As a simple fix, it *should* be.  As some have pointed out on -users,
> the end user could be left with no recording and no visible reason why.
> The best solution is probably a method by which the user is left with
> some kind of visible indicator of the problem while still preserving the
> deletability of the metadata and file.  Any easy fix along these lines
> might be not to insert the filename into the DB until the recording is
> really going and then adjusting the code in the necessary places that if
> the filename doesn't exist to notify the user accordingly.  I don't know
> how many places in the code manipulate the filename but it might not be
> too many...

Or, just use the filesize field in recorded.  Mark those recordings that are 0 
size somehow on screen.  Allow removal of metadata with 0 in the filesize 
field.

Isaac