[mythtv-users] database cleaning after file loss?

Brian Sanders brian.sanders at gmail.com
Mon Apr 7 13:22:01 UTC 2014


The page says this is for 0.25, .25, .26, and I am now running .27.
Any chance this works on .27 and the website hasn't been updated?

thanks!

On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 8:04 AM, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 04/07/2014 07:53 AM, Brian Sanders wrote:
>>
>> I had an issue with my recordings directory, and have lost all the
>> recordings that were in it.  This wasn't a mythtv issue, and now I
>> have the drive working and ready to continue recording.  This morning
>> I started wondering, does my database now have some dead entries for
>> the 800 gig or so of files that were on the disk?  If files are
>> deleted out from under a system, does any data in the database about
>> these now missing files ever get flushed out?
>>
>> I really don't expect there to be performance implications for some
>> database entries to shows that don't exist.  Still I was curious if
>> there is a script or even a mythtv function which can help clean up
>> after a loss of data like this.
>
>
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Find_orphans.py
>
> Mike
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