[mythtv-users] Two files after transcoding

[Daryl McDonald]

On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 7:14 PM, Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 7:03 PM, Thomas Boehm
> <mythtv-users at lists.boehmi.net> wrote:
>> On 16/03/14 22:29, Daryl McDonald 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.
>>>
>>> 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
>>
>> If "marked as old" means that they are renamed to *.old, then *they are*
>> orphans for MyhTV. Can you please run the script? It will not delete
>> anything before you confirm it.
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>
> Here is the result of the script:
>
> Recordings with missing files
>   daryl-A780L3C: News (Manual Record) - 2013-12-11 18:00:00
>       1261_20131211225700.mpg
>
>            Count:           1
> Zero byte recordings
>   daryl-A780L3C: Unknown
>       5281_20130609200333.mpg
>
>            Count:           1
> Database backups
>   daryl-a780l3c:
> /var/lib/mythtv/db_backups/mythconverg-1317-20140216100312.sql.gz
>       22.5MB
>   daryl-a780l3c:
> /var/lib/mythtv/db_backups/mythconverg-1317-20140223034135.sql.gz
>       22.4MB
>   daryl-a780l3c:
> /var/lib/mythtv/db_backups/mythconverg-1317-20140302134718.sql.gz
>       19.0MB
>   daryl-a780l3c:
> /var/lib/mythtv/db_backups/mythconverg-1317-20140309154953.sql.gz
>       24.8MB
>   daryl-a780l3c:
> /var/lib/mythtv/db_backups/mythconverg-1317-20140316061853.sql.gz
>       26.4MB
>
>            Total:     115.0MB
> Other files
>   daryl-a780l3c:
> /var/lib/mythtv/recordings/1021_20140202233000.mpg.old
>       22.0GB
>   daryl-a780l3c: /var/lib/mythtv/recordings/1022_20130605151500
>                         0.0B
>   daryl-a780l3c: /var/lib/mythtv/recordings/1042_20130608160000
>                         0.0B
>   daryl-a780l3c: /var/lib/mythtv/recordings/1073_20130605213000
>                         0.0B
>   daryl-a780l3c:
> /var/lib/mythtv/recordings/1091_20131209010000.mpg.old
>       15.3GB
>   daryl-a780l3c:
> /var/lib/mythtv/recordings/1091_20131228010000.mpg.old
>       15.3GB
>   daryl-a780l3c:
> /var/lib/mythtv/recordings/1621_20131113030100.mpg.old
>        8.1GB
>   daryl-a780l3c:
> /var/lib/mythtv/recordings/1621_20140301030000.mpg.old
>        8.2GB
>   daryl-a780l3c:
> /var/lib/mythtv/recordings/2010_20130929210000.mpg.old
>      104.5MB
>   daryl-a780l3c:
> /var/lib/mythtv/recordings/2010_20130929210600.mpg.old
>        4.4GB
>   daryl-a780l3c:
> /var/lib/mythtv/recordings/2013_20140128030000.mpg.old
>        2.3GB
>   daryl-a780l3c:
> /var/lib/mythtv/recordings/2033_20131120040000.mpg.old
>        3.5GB
>   daryl-a780l3c:
> /var/lib/mythtv/recordings/2045_20140111020000.mpg.old
>        4.7GB
>   daryl-a780l3c: /var/lib/mythtv/recordings/2046_20130613090000
>                         0.0B
>   daryl-a780l3c:
> /var/lib/mythtv/recordings/2051_20140126030000.mpg.old
>        7.6GB
>   daryl-a780l3c: /var/lib/mythtv/recordings/2406_20130624090000
>                         0.0B
>   daryl-a780l3c: /var/lib/mythtv/recordings/2961_20130622221000
>                         0.0B
>   daryl-a780l3c: /var/lib/mythtv/recordings/3196_20130629210000
>                         0.0B
>   daryl-a780l3c: /var/lib/mythtv/recordings/3197_20130616200000
>                         0.0B
>   daryl-a780l3c: /var/lib/mythtv/recordings/3197_20130630200000
>                         0.0B
>   daryl-a780l3c:
> /var/lib/mythtv/recordings/3247_20140301010000.mpg.old
>      795.8MB
>   daryl-a780l3c: /var/lib/mythtv/recordings/4981_20130609210000
>                         0.0B
>
>            Total:      92.4GB
> Please select from the following
>  1. Delete orphaned recording entries
>  2. Delete zero byte recordings
>  3. Delete other files
>  4. Refresh list
>
> So now I should go ahead with all four of these options? Yes?

Googled the process, then proceeded, all went well, will recheck
tomorrow. Thanks Thomas and everyone else.