[mythtv-users] Cleaning up orphan database records
Bob Sully
rcs at malibyte.net
Fri Apr 20 19:19:54 UTC 2007
barbex wrote:
>>
>> I have about 35 records in the database pointing to old LiveTV
>> recordings
>> that no longer exist on disk. I don't know how this happened, but I'd
>> like to clean them up. Trying to delete them through MythWeb is
>> ineffective - this shows up in the backend logs, and the entry doesn't
>> get
>> deleted from the database:
>>
>
> I think optimize_mythdb.pl does that for you, you'll find it in
> /contrib/ (AFAIK)
>
Thanks very much for this (and to all who replied). I didn't expect that
this post would start such a spirited discussion!
Bob
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