[mythtv-users] banners/coverart/fanart/etc. cleanup

[Daryl McDonald]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 12:50 PM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hoi Bill,
>
> Monday, November 16, 2015, 6:24:02 PM, you wrote:
>
> > On 11/10/2015 11:46 AM, Kevin Calvert wrote:
> >> Is there any known way to go about cleaning up this sort of artwork for
> >> since deleted movies/tv shows?
>
> > Mine's building up too, but I've chosen to ignore it :(, because I
> > think the answer is: no.
>
> > It's easy enough to develop a list of current recording/video artwork
> > with the Services API (and perhaps with Perl|Python bindings/SQL) but
> > I don't see a safe way to clear out the recordedartwork table entries.
>
> > What I don't know is what happens if a new recording is made of a
> > program that already has an entry in recordedartwork. You'd need
> > to test what happens if the inetref/season exists in the table
> > and there're no files. Would mythmetadatalookup ignore the old
> > filenames in the table and re-all the actual images?
>
> My experience is a bit of both. It won't replace older generic artwork
> with newer, but it will fetch episode/season specific artwork.
>
> I also think that you can safely clear the artwork directory. I think
> that whenever it can't find something, it will download again. But you
> can easily test by moving the artwork for one movie out of the
> directory and then go in the frontend to that movie and see what
> happens. It will however take a few minutes before any new artwork
> shows and you might have to restart the frontend ones. If it doesn't
> work, you can move it back.
>
> Tot mails,
>   Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com
>
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Is it possible that "find_orphans.py"  could be of some assistance here? My
limited experience with it IIRC it found and shed some art work, probably
from lost recordings, don't know about deleted recordings.
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