[mythtv-users] Mythvideo categories

[Jack McGee]

On 08/09/2015 02:03 PM, Paul Harrison wrote:
> On 09/08/15 19:41, Jack McGee wrote:
>> On 08/09/2015 01:33 PM, Paul Harrison wrote:
>>>
>>> On 09/08/15 17:26, Jack McGee wrote:
>>>> I cannot figure out how I added categories to mythvideo, nor how to 
>>>> remove them.  Help!
>>>
>>> With a video selected press EDIT ('e') or INFO ('i') -> 'Change 
>>> Video Details' -> 'Edit Details'.
>> Excellent.  I see how to add a category, how do I delete a category 
>> from the list of categories?
>>
>
> That's a good question. I'm not seeing a way to do that in the frontend.
>
> The best I can think of is to edit the videocategory table in the 
> database being careful to check the category isn't being used by any 
> video's first otherwise the referential integrity of the database 
> tables will be broken.
>

Thanks, I tried to install phpmyadmin but that is not working correctly, 
and rather than track that down also, does anyone have a mysql command I 
can use to delete categories?
I am certain no videos are using the categories I want to delete.