<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Raymond Wagner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:raymond@wagnerrp.com" target="_blank">raymond@wagnerrp.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Sep 4, 2013, at 10:16, "Michael T. Dean" <<a href="mailto:mtdean@thirdcontact.com">mtdean@thirdcontact.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On 09/04/2013 09:13 AM, Raymond Wagner wrote:<br>
>> On Sep 4, 2013, at 9:04, "Michael T. Dean"<<a href="mailto:mtdean@thirdcontact.com">mtdean@thirdcontact.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>>> On 09/04/2013 05:30 AM, John Pilkington wrote:<br>
>>>> Arising from this thread:<br>
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>>>> <a href="http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/551029#551029" target="_blank">http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/551029#551029</a><br>
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>>>>>> On 30/08/13 13:34, Michael T. Dean wrote:<br>
>>>>> We don't really have a good way of clearing out old, non-existent videos<br>
>>>>> from old, non-existent hosts in Video Library at this point.<br>
>>>> Wouldn't a 'Clear all hashes from the Video List', with 'Are you sure?' protection, do this? It would be much simpler.<br>
>>> AIUI, in the case of a "missing" (no-longer-existent) host, any Video Library videos in the database will always remain in the database and the only way to remove them is to let that host say, "I don't have any videos, anymore."<br>
>> If a video cannot be found during a scan, and the host it is thought to be on took part in the scan, it and all associated metadata will be wiped from the database.<br>
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> So if the host doesn't exist, anymore (and, therefore, didn't take part in the scan), the video will remain in the library, right?<br>
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</div>Correct. If the system running the scan cannot query the system holding the files, it plays it safe and does nothing. In order to remove it otherwise, you either must remove each video from the library individually, or perform a successful scan...</blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>I've been wondering about how the Video Library would behave in such a case for a while now. Specifically, if I had a slave backend (or rather whatever the alternate module is called on can play content without a capture card) on a NAS, that had some infrequently accessed videos. I wasn't sure if I'd lose metadata entries for 'absent' video files if the NAS machine was off on a rescan. If I understand you correctly, those entries would NOT be deleted, unless the NAS on up (with the myth daemon running) and the video files were missing from the slave's valid storage group. <br>
</div></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I may modify my setup to start doing this. I'm pretty much maxed out in physical disk space (bays and SATA slots) and this would an elegent way of handling it.<br><br></div>
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