[mythtv-users] Out with the .old?

[Roy Lofthouse]

On 23/09/06, Go Hskrs <gohskrs at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This seems wrong -- is there something I should be doing differently?
>
> I found 33GB of .mpg.old files in my recordings directory, with file names
> like 1110_20060911212000.mpg.old.  These are recordings I have transcoded,
> either to a lower quality setting, or lossless MPEG2 after building a
> cutlist, in the past week (19-23 September).  Needless to say, this saved me
> a lot of disk space, and my older recordings are no longer getting whacked
> by autoexpire.  However, I wish I'd known that I need to clean up this
> directory before losing recordings.
>
> Does mythtranscode clean up after itself?  Is there a setting somewhere to
> force this cleanup?  Do I just need to RTFM?  8^)
>
> Thanks.
>
> -=-=-
> FYI: About my (combined frontend & backend) system
>
> OS: Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.17-1.2187_1.fc5.cubbi_suspend2 #1 Mon
> Sep 18 11:24:14 EDT 2006 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
>
> Software versions (output from ` yum list | grep "myth.*installed" `:)
> libmyth.i386                             0.20-138.fc5.at
> installed
> mytharchive.i386                         0.20-133.fc5.at
> installed
> mythbrowser.i386                         0.20-133.fc5.at
> installed
> mythcontrols.i386                        0.20-133.fc5.at
> installed
> mythdvd.i386                             0.20-133.fc5.at
> installed
> mythflix.i386                            0.20-133.fc5.at
> installed
> mythgallery.i386                         0.20-133.fc5.at
> installed
> mythgame.i386                            0.20-133.fc5.at
> installed
> mythmkmovie.i386                         1.1.4-5.fc5.at
> installed
> mythmusic.i386                           0.20-133.fc5.at
> installed
> mythnews.i386                            0.20-133.fc5.at
> installed
> mythphone.i386                           0.20-133.fc5.at
> installed
> mythplugins.i386                         0.20-133.fc5.at
> installed
> myththemes.noarch                        0.20-110.at
> installed
> mythtv.i386                              0.20-138.fc5.at
> installed
> mythtv-backend.i386                      0.20-138.fc5.at
> installed
> mythtv-frontend.i386                     0.20-138.fc5.at
> installed
> mythtv-setup.i386                        0.20-138.fc5.at
> installed
> mythtv-suite.noarch                      0.20-62.at
> installed
> mythtv-theme-MediaCenter.noarch          0.17-5.at
> installed
> mythtv-theme-ProjectGrayhem.noarch       1.7-2.at
> installed
> mythtv-theme-abstract.noarch             0.20040910-3.at
> installed
> mythtv-theme-photo.noarch                4-7.at
> installed
> mythtv-theme-purplegalaxy.noarch         0.20031214-4.at
> installed
> mythtv-theme-sleek.noarch                0.35-3.at
> installed
> mythtv-theme-visor.noarch                1:0.16.2-6.at
> installed
> mythtv-themes.i386                       0.20-138.fc5.at
> installed
> mythvideo.i386                           0.20-133.fc5.at
> installed
> mythweather.i386                         0.20-133.fc5.at
> installed
> mythweb.noarch                           0.20-84.at
> installed
>
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>
> there is an option in the transcode settings that will keep a copy of the
originl file.  If you dont want these then just uncheck this option.  You
will have to manually delete your .old files though..
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