[mythtv-users] clearing out old, non-existent videos

[Raymond Wagner]

On Sep 4, 2013, at 9:04, "Michael T. Dean" <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:

> On 09/04/2013 05:30 AM, John Pilkington wrote:
>> Arising from this thread:
>> 
>> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/551029#551029
>> 
>> >> On 30/08/13 13:34, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>> 
>>> We don't really have a good way of clearing out old, non-existent videos
>>> from old, non-existent hosts in Video Library at this point.
>> 
>> Wouldn't a 'Clear all hashes from the Video List', with 'Are you sure?' protection, do this?  It would be much simpler.
> 
> AIUI, in the case of a "missing" (no-longer-existent) host, any Video Library videos in the database will always remain in the database and the only way to remove them is to let that host say, "I don't have any videos, anymore."

If a video cannot be found during a scan, and the host it is thought to be on took part in the scan, it and all associated metadata will be wiped from the database.