<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">From: Kingsley Turner <krt@krt.com.au><br>To: Discussion about MythTV <mythtv-users@mythtv.org><br>Sent: Tuesday, July 5, 2011 3:40 PM<br>Subject: [mythtv-users] Q: A truckload of ".old" files in the dir where MythTV records??<br>> <br>> Hi,<br>> <br>> Chasing up some "missing" diskspace, I have found a truckload of ".old"<br>> files in the directory where MythTV stores the recorded TV programmes.<br><br><snip><br><br>> There are around 265 files in total.<br>> <br>> Looking at one, it seems to be from a file I have transcoded (after marking<br>> the ads away).<br>> Does anyone know where these come from?<br>> Can I safely remove them ?<br>> <br>> <br>> cheers,<br>> -kt<br><br>Do you have MythTV set to delete old files after transcoding? I can't remember where this
setting is off the top of my head.<br><br>Deleting .old files shouldn't cause any problems. Except for the obvious case where you break a recording somehow and want to restore it from backup and then you don't have the backup anymore.</div></body></html>