[mythtv-users] Cant delete programs when HD files up

[Michael T. Dean]

David Watkins wrote:

>On 28/11/05, Ben Edwards <funkytwig at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>I came back at the end of the weekend and my hard disk had filled up.
>>When I tried to delete anything the frontend hung when I went to
>>delete a probram and selected 'Delete it'.  I ended up hading to
>>manually delete a old program media data for free up some room.  That
>>did the trick and allowed me to delete other stuff. When I try to
>>delete the entry from the media library relating to the manually
>>deleted .nuv (Ime using a nava-t) file nothing happens.
>>
>>So I have two questions.
>>
>>Firstly how come I cant delete programmes when I have filled up the
>>drive, how can I stop this happening in the future.
>>
>>Secondly how do I delete Media library entries which do not have any
>>associated media (.nuv files).
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>Not sure if there are better ways now, but it used to be you had to
>create a dummy file to match the database entry
>
>$touch <filename>
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>and then do the delete.
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In SVN you can delete an entry even when no file is present (and, 
therefore, it will be in 0.19 once released).

Mike