[mythtv-users] Cleanup recordings not in database

Ramon Hofer ramonhofer at bluewin.ch
Sat Jun 25 11:37:52 UTC 2011


On 06/24/2011 06:40 PM, Raymond Wagner wrote:
> On 6/24/2011 08:29, Ramon Hofer wrote:
>> On 06/24/2011 02:02 PM, Nick Morrott wrote:
>>> On 24 June 2011 11:45, Ramon Hofer<ramonhofer at bluewin.ch>    wrote:
>>>> On 06/23/2011 06:44 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>>>> On 06/23/2011 06:38 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote:
>>>>>> On 06/14/2011 06:57 PM, Chris Kapp wrote:
>>>>>>> Recently I had a hard drive crash that left records in the database
>>>>>>> without files and files without database records (I managed to get
>>>>>>> some of the files backed up before I completely lost the drive).  I
>>>>>>> found this script worked well:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Find_orphans.p
>> Hm, it lists the orphaned recordings but it can't delete them:
>>
>> The following recordings will be deleted
>> ...
>>                                                                         Count:          15
>> Are you sure you want to continue?
>>    >   yes
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>      File "/home/hoferr/bin/find_orphans.py", line 230, in<module>
>>        main()
>>      File "/home/hoferr/bin/find_orphans.py", line 214, in main
>>        opt[1](opt[2])
>>      File "/home/hoferr/bin/find_orphans.py", line 135, in delete_recs
>>        except MythError:
>> NameError: global name 'MythError' is not defined
> That specific error was because of a missed include, that resulted in
> the error handling not functioning properly.  The initial error was
> caused by the backend reporting a failure to delete.  Did you run the
> delete once, get a new list of content, and tell it to delete a second time?
Yes, I ran the script and didn't delete anything.
Then I ran it again and told it to delete.

How can I include that missing include?


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