<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> The thread runs when it finishes a recording and it tries to<br>> autoexpire<br>
> a recording. I don't have my db in front of my but you could dome<br>> some<br>> SQL to pull out all the file names the DB thinks exist and `ls` on the<br>> storage drive then send them through diff and see what's in one but
<br>> not<br>> the other.<br>></blockquote><div><br>Yeah, that was the scripting I was trying to avoid. I guess it's not that hard to do, but I didn't want to reinvent the wheel if there was already a "myth-check-yourself-for-problems" command. I guess there is no magic command, apart from the normal housekeeping thread.
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">So did the OP correct the problem ? Just "touch" the missing file and
<br>it will then have something to delete and can go ahead and delete the<br>metadata.</blockquote><div><br>I went the other way and just removed that recording from the dB using phpmyadmin<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I'm not sure if this behavior is a good thing or not, it alerts you<br>to a problem, *if* you read the logs, which most people don't.</blockquote><div><br>That was my problem, too. I don't often read the logs, so it has probably been like that for awhile (at least a few months, since the missing recordings were dated somewhere in 2005)
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I suppose if you had a lot of files stored on an NFS filesystem and<br>the network failed you wouldn't want the system to delete all of the
<br>metadata associated with those files.</blockquote><div><br>Yeah, I wouldn't want automatic file deletion, but maybe a frontend alert of some kind. TiVo has a menu item in their main menu that says some kind of message, usually a "check out movie X" or "Showtime Free Preview this weekend" "check out this new trailer", etc. Myth could do something similar and say "Myth Found Some Errors" and have an option in there to view them and optionally ignore them. Obviously not an important feature, but a neat idea. It would be good to have some kind of framework for adding a menu item on the fly dynamically.
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