[mythtv-users] 0.24-fixes: recordings deleting from drive but not from database?

[Steven Adeff]

On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 8:04 AM, Scott and Nicole Harris
<snharris99 at live.com> wrote:
>> > lately, on both my and my parent's setup I've noticed this occurring a lot:
>> >
>> > 2011-12-26 09:45:23.414 ProgramInfo(1394_20111226050000.mpg), Error:
>> > GetPlaybackURL: '1394_20111226050000.mpg' should be local, but it can
>> > not be found.
>> >
>> > indicating that files are being deleted from the drive but not from
>> > the database for some reason.
>> >
>> > anyone seen this before? any idea what's going on?
>>
>> I've seen this quite a few times on my system. I believe this issue
>> begins when a recording fails. I think the entry gets made in the db but
>> then no file is created. Then when the auto-delete process gets around
>> to expiring/deleting those it cannot find the file and produces this error.
>>
>> I used touch to create the missing files and that seems to resolve it.
>>
>> Eventually I tracked down all of my failed recordings to just 2 channels
>> and was then able to find that both of them were missing their xmltvid
>> in the channel setup. I manually entered those and the failed recording
>> and these error messages went away for good.
>>
>> I doubt you have the exact same issue but it could be something similar
>> causing failed recordings.
>
> Wouldn't the find orphans script http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Find_orphans.py be easier?  Works for me when this occasionally
> happens (which like you was almost always around failed recordings).  Heck I run find orphans from time to time just to clean up
> orphaned recording thumb nails.

interesting, I did not think it was failed recordings, but I'll have
to keep an eye on it to make sure. will put this on hold until I can
do further research.

thanks!
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Steve
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