[mythtv-users] Is it safe to delete caches?

Robert McNamara robert.mcnamara at gmail.com
Tue Jul 5 14:04:58 UTC 2011


On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 7:02 AM, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 07/03/2011 08:20 PM, Robert McNamara wrote:
>> On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 5:17 PM, William Kenworthy wrote:
>>> I have over 700MB in the ~mythtv/.mythtv/osdcache and
>>> ~mythtv/.mythtv/themecache directories - is it safe to delete them? -
>>> some of the files go back many years (ancient myths!)
>> Yes, it's perfectly safe.  Anything which is needed will be recreated.
>>
>
> But you should probably restart mythfrontend, after, right?
>
> Mike

Right.  Well, I guess in theory it *might* work anyway, but I wouldn't
want to test the theory.


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