[mythtv-users] Clearing autoexpire list of missing recordings

[Daryl McDonald]

On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 2:35 PM, Michael T. Dean
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 02/24/2014 10:46 AM, Daryl McDonald wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 10:07 AM, Eric Sharkey wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 9:04 AM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Alternatively, if it's a lot of files, you can use find_orphans.py (as
>>>> linked previously), which does work fine with 0.27.
>>>
>>> This hasn't been my experience.  I would go so far as to say it just
>>> doesn't work at all.  For me, at least.  It may delete a few
>>> recordings, but it tends to crash the backend and leave most things
>>> undeleted.
>>>
>>> I'll see if I can run the backend under the debugger and get a stack
>>> trace.
>>>
>> doesn't the OP deleting grayed out recordings after his drive died
>> indicate that they were deleted improperly, and therefore should be
>> "touched" so Myth can handle them properly?   Just for my own
>> clarification.  Daryl
>
>
> Read the rest of what I wrote, that was cut out of the e-mail you replied
> to:
>
>
>>>> Meaning there's /no/ need whatsoever (and hasn't been for at least 6 or
>>>> 7 years) to touch filenames/make files for MythTV to delete--as long as you
>>>> delete things properly--specifically, follow the instructions at:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Frequently_Asked_Questions#How_do_I_remove_recordings_that_no_longer_exist_on_disk.3F
>>>
>>>
>
> where the wiki entry is the proper way to delete *recordings* /after/
> recording files are improperly deleted.
>
> So, no need to touch if you do it that way.  And, no need to touch if you
> use find_orphans.py.  People only think you need to create fake files
> because they don't follow the instructions in the wiki entry properly and so
> the backend doesn't delete files because it will only do so if you do it
> properly, whereby you're saying, "I know the file doesn't exist, and it's
> not just a matter of the file system being unmounted, so please delete the
> recording anyway."  And, since so many people have been saying for so many
> years to touch files, we still have people using a prehistoric way of
> cleaning up after problems.
>
> Mike
>
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Thanks Mike!