<div dir="ltr"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">On 10/09/14 05:49, James Peroulas wrote:<br></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">> I run find_orphans.py, select 'delete orphaned recording entries' and it<br></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">> then proceeds to delete 2-10 of these recordings and then simply stops<br></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">> deleting them. In other words, repeatedly selecting 'Refresh list' from<br></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">> find_orphans.py shows the Count of orphaned recordings decreasing by<br></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">> 2-10, and then this value stops decreasing.<br></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">><br></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">> Is there another way to delete these orphaned recordings?</span></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><br></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Give it some time to delete these recordings. If you keep running<br></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">find_orphans.py in quick succession you will only see that it finished<br></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">deleting a few recordings. Depending on your filesytem and settings in<br></span><span class="" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background:rgb(255,255,204)">mythtv</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> it will take some time to delete them. Just let it do it's job<br></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">and check again in a few hours.</span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Hi all, thanks for your suggestions. Some clarification:</div><div><br></div><div>The steps I'm taking are:</div><div>1) Reboot MythTV computer</div><div>2) Run find_orphans.py</div><div>3) Select "delete orphaned recording entries" (only one time!)</div><div>4) Select "refresh list" (repeatedly)</div><div><br></div><div>When I select "refresh list" repeatedly, in the beginning, I do observe the "orphaned recording" count decreasing, slowly. However, after decreasing by 2-10 entries, it stops decreasing further, even if I wait for hours... Hours later, if I select "delete orphaned recording entries" again, it deletes a few more before again stopping...</div><div><br></div><div>Any ideas?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>James</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>-- <br><i>Integrity is a binary state - either you have it or you don’t.</i> - John Doerr<br>
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