[mythtv-users] Deleting orphaned recording entries

[Michael T. Dean]

On 09/10/2014 06:48 AM, Thomas Boehm wrote:
> On 10/09/14 05:49, James Peroulas wrote:
>> I run find_orphans.py, select 'delete orphaned recording entries' and it
>> then proceeds to delete 2-10 of these recordings and then simply stops
>> deleting them. In other words, repeatedly selecting 'Refresh list' from
>> find_orphans.py shows the Count of orphaned recordings decreasing by
>> 2-10, and then this value stops decreasing.
>>
>> Is there another way to delete these orphaned recordings?
> Give it

where "it" is mythbackend (no need to keep find_orphans.py running)

>   some time to delete these recordings. If you keep running
> find_orphans.py in quick succession you will only see that it finished
> deleting a few recordings. Depending on your filesytem and settings in
> mythtv it will take some time to delete them. Just let it do it's job
> and check again in a few hours.

Exactly.

Mike