[mythtv-users] Two files after transcoding

Daryl McDonald darylangela at gmail.com
Sun Mar 16 23:01:42 UTC 2014


On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 6:48 PM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hoi Daryl,
>
> Sunday, March 16, 2014, 11:29:19 PM, you wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 5:56 PM, Thomas Boehm
>> <mythtv-users at lists.boehmi.net> wrote:
>>> On 16/03/14 21:16, Daryl McDonald wrote:
>>>> I just tallied up the "old" files and there are 262 GB's of them. Can
>>>> anyone tell me the myth sanctioned way to free up this space?
>>>
>>> I think the find_orphans.py script should find and offer to delete them.
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>> I'm not so sure they're orphans, they are original recordings that
>> have been transcoded and kept due to not un-checking the box in set-up
>> "Save original files after transcoding
>> (globally)"., and then marked as "old" in the mythtv/recordings file.
>> I could manually delete them, but not wanting to create orphans, I
>> await the wisdom of this list for experienced direction.   Thanks in
>> advance   Daryl
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> I think the .old files are not in the database. They are there to put
> back in the original place by renaming if you are unsatisfied.
>
> Tot mails,
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That sounds good. I would then assume that leaving the afore mentioned
box checked, for second chance's sake and manually deleting after
satisfactory transcoding would be the dev-intended management scheme?
Forgive me if I seem to be beating the crap out of this issue, I just
want to do the right thing first and not have to go back and clean up
an avoidable mess. Confirmation please.  Daryl


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