[mythtv-users] deleted recordings don't seem to be expiring

[Andrew M. Bishop]

Peter Bennett <cats22 at comcast.net> writes:
> On 01/23/2017 12:02 PM, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
>> The one from 2010 has deletepending == 1.  The second one I was looking
>> at has deletepending == 0 even though the recgroup == Deleted, like the
>> first one.
>
> deletepending is a problem, if it is set to 1 that normally indicates a
> crash occurred during the delete. That will not resolve itself, the
> recording will stay in limbo for ever. I recommend shut down the backend
> and use SQL to set that flag to 0, then start the backend and delete the
> program again.

I reported this as a bug a couple of weeks ago with a tentative patch:

https://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/12974

I had the same problem but this patch solved it although I am not
totally sure that there are no unwanted side effects.

-- 
Andrew.