[mythtv-users] deleted files not gone, taking up space

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Tue Jun 18 18:26:58 UTC 2013


On 06/18/2013 12:18 PM, David Scammell wrote:
> Thanks Mike. Yes, my situation was unusual, I had an odd bug last year 
> to do with a sbe and expiring recordings which was happily deleting 
> everything in sight.
>
> It's been a while since I ran find_orphans.py, I struggled to find a 
> copy of it when I looked the other day but perhaps I didn't look too 
> hard as I usually just compare whats on disk to whats in the mysql tables.

There's one at http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Find_orphans.py , but it 
doesn't identify files orphaned like yours.  I think Raymond Wagner was 
working on an update that handled them a long time ago, but I'm not sure 
what happened with it.

Mike


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