[mythtv-users] How to mass-clear list of recordings?

[Jason Chambers]

On 09/11/2010 18:59, Manuel McLure wrote:
> Unfortunately my MythTV disk is failing and the logical volume I have
> my XFS recording filesystem on appears to be badly broken (I/O errors
> on the superblock.) I'm going to attempt a ddrescue to a new drive but
> in case I can't recover the filesystem I'd like to update the database
> to reflect the fact that the recordings are gone. What I want is to
> have the same effect as doing "delete and allow rerecord" for every
> single recording that had not been deleted prior to the disk crash,
> without altering the information for recordings that were deleted
> prior to the problem.

Is this the /only/ disk containing recordings in your system?

If so, why not use the Watch Recordings screen?  You could just add
everything to a playlist (which can be done in one step by selecting the
"All Programmes" heading), and then select "Delete and allow re-record"
from the playlist options.

It won't help if you do manage to rescue some files as you will have to
deselect these from the playlist which would be tedious (unless its just
a handful of files).  But if you do have to delete everything on disk,
then its safer than having to write SQL statements yourself and risk
potential mistakes.

Regards,
Jason