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

[Andrew Stadt]

On 05/07/2011 2:11 AM, Zuriel wrote:
> From: Kingsley Turner <krt at krt.com.au>
> To: Discussion about MythTV <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 5, 2011 3:40 PM
> Subject: [mythtv-users] Q: A truckload of ".old" files in the dir 
> where MythTV records??
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Chasing up some "missing" diskspace, I have found a truckload of ".old"
> > files in the directory where MythTV stores the recorded TV programmes.
>
> <snip>
>
> > 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
>
> Do you have MythTV set to delete old files after transcoding? I can't 
> remember where this setting is off the top of my head.
>
> Deleting .old files shouldn't cause any problems. Except for the 
> obvious case where you break a recording somehow and want to restore 
> it from backup and then you don't have the backup anymore.
>
I'm not sure what the OP's setup is, but I used to have a user job to 
transcode (and remove commercials) from certain scheduled recordings, 
and it would leave these *.old files around.  I had a cron job which 
would remove any *.old file which was more then 48 hours old.

HTH,

Andrew.