[mythtv-users] find orphans.py question

[Raymond Wagner]

On 4/11/2011 18:41, Greg wrote:
> My question is why it didn't find the png's?

An orphaned snapshot is defined as an image with no matching recording 
in the database.  A recording will have a basename like 
2047_20110410200000.mpg, so any file with '2047_20110410200000' in the 
name will be presumed to match to that recording and be removed from the 
list.

> One other question is why does it target my db_backup's?...I really don't want to delete my backups..

It doesn't target the database backups.  Backups are not listed anywhere 
in the database, so it is not possible for them to be 'orphaned'.  The 
script is merely listing which ones it has found.  If you look closer, 
the script offers no option to delete these files.