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

[Greg Grotsky]

On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 8:04 AM, Robert McNamara
<robert.mcnamara at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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.
>

I'm in the process of rearranging the hard disk structure in a new system
and looking through the old file system I found that my osdcache directory
was 520MB!  Apparently this directory has been retired as it doesn't exist
in my new .mythtv directory structure. However, I do see a themecache
directory that currently holds 534MB. This is probably normal, right?
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