[mythtv-users] Q: A truckload of ".old" files in the dir where MythTV records??

[Kingsley Turner]

Hi,

Chasing up some "missing" diskspace, I have found a truckload of ".old" 
files in the directory where MythTV stores the recorded TV programmes.

kingsley at mediabox:~/MythTV$ du -ch *.old
1.9G    1003_20100822193000.mpg.old
3.5G    1003_20100831125800.mpg.old
1.9G    1003_20101126193000.mpg.old
...
2.1G    1034_20101007202900.mpg.old
1.8G    1062_20110410033900.mpg.old
1.1G    31416_20090829065800.mpg.old
442G    total


There are around 265 files in total.

Looking at one, it seems to be from a file I have transcoded (after marking 
the ads away).
Does anyone know where these come from?
Can I safely remove them ?


cheers,
-kt