[mythtv-users] Recording data?

Scot L. Harris webid at cfl.rr.com
Tue Sep 20 01:02:41 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 20:50, Chad wrote:
> I just lost a ton of recorded programs on a disk.  Now I have a lot of
> things in the Recordings menu, and they won't delete.  Anyway to mass
> remove everything, or am I better off just dumping the database
> completely and re-starting from scratch?

I had a problem with one particular show.  Someone on the list suggested
I check the mythbackend.log and get the name of the file.  I created a
file of that name in recordings directory using touch and then was able
to delete it.  

If you have a lot of these you may want to script the process.



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