[mythtv-users] Problem deleting a recording

Scot L. Harris webid at cfl.rr.com
Wed Aug 17 12:57:43 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 21:06, Adam Bodnar wrote:
> I had something like this as well, in the backend log will be the file
> it's trying to delete. I just touched an empty file that was named.
> Then I went and tried removing it again from the frontend and all was
> good.
> 
> On 8/16/05, Scot L. Harris <webid at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> > Running mythtv-backend-0.17-95.rhfc3.at from atrpms built using Jarod's
> > instructions.  Been working great.  :)
> > 
> > A while back there was a problem that resulted in a recording that was
> > deleted but the entry in the list did not get removed.  I noted the
> > following error listed in the mythbackend.log file.
> > 
> > 2005-08-16 20:28:21.145 Couldn't find backend for: Southern Steel :
> > Lucas Bike
> > 
> > I think this can be fixed by manually deleting this residual entry from
> > the database.  The question is how to do this without trashing the whole
> > database?
> > 

Thanks for the suggestion.  Was able to locate the file name in the log
and get it cleaned up as you suggested.

Really appreciate the quick response on this one!



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