[mythtv-users] Hard drive died - Need to delete large numbers of recordings

[Michael T. Dean]

On 03/07/2006 03:19 AM, William Pettersson wrote:
> Well, as it says, my hard drive died, and I need to delete the entries
> in Mythtv for all the recordings which are now missing.  I'm not worried
> about loosing the videos, there's nothing really important there anyway.
>  But there is a large number of them.  I remember reading that the way
> to do it involves finding out what times/dates the recordings started
> and ended, recreating those files with touch, and then deleting again.
>
> Since I really don't want to have to do this for all of my recordings,
> is there a simpler way?  Deleting every recording is fine, if I can
> empty some table via SQL
>   

Assuming you're using 0.19, you no longer have to be concerned with the 
name of the file.  0.19 allows you to delete recording information even 
if the file does not exist (or is not accessible).

To quickly delete all your recordings, you can go into the Watch 
Recordings screen and, while "All Programs" is selected, hit the INFO 
key, then Add this Group to Playlist.  Then, hit INFO, select Playlist, 
Playlist Options, Delete (or something like that).  Then, just answer 
yes when prompted whether you want to delete the recording even though 
the file doesn't exist (probably for each recording).

Mike