[mythtv-users] find_orphans deleted everything!

[Bill Meek]

On 8/4/20 7:20 AM, James Abernathy wrote:
> This is strange.  I've used the find_orphans script for years to find
> problems and fix them; particularly after restoring a database.
> 
> So after creating a new system with a new database but the same old
> recordings hard drive, I ran it looking for issues.  It found about 20 and
> I chose to delete the problems. It deleted everything including a
> recording that was happening at the time. Many of these were Live TV
> partial recordings and nothing of significance was lost.  However, it makes
> me wonder about find_orphan.py.  I have the version that is for v31+.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> JIm A

I'm confused about the "nothing of significance was lost"
comment and the Subject: line.

By everything, do you mean it deleted all of the recordings
on the "old recordings drive"?

Did the initial output list the recordings that it planned
to delete?

-- 
Bill