[mythtv] Way of calling FORCE_DELETE_RECORDING

[Jochen Kühner]

Michael T. Dean schrieb:
> On 08/06/2006 08:24 AM, Jochen Kühner wrote:
>   
>> Chris Pinkham schrieb:
>>   
>>     
>>> * On Sun Aug 06, 2006 at 11:47:12AM +0200, Jochen K?hner wrote:
>>>     
>>>       
>>>> is there a way of sending the command
>>>>
>>>> FORCE_DELETE_RECORDING
>>>>
>>>> to the backend??
>>>>         
>>> Same way you'd send any other command to the backend, open a
>>> connection, and send the command. :)
>>>
>>> Not sure what you're looking for here.  Perhaps if you
>>> explained it a little more.  Do you mean from the frontend,
>>> from your own program, from where?
>>>       
>> when i was walking through the source, i think that this command expires 
>> recordings from my list even when the file is not there any more.
>> (because i had a harddrive crash and i have many recordings in my db 
>> which are not there any more, but the auto expire doesn't delete them)
>>   
>>     
>
> Auto-expire doesn't delete non-existent recordings because its purpose 
> is to reclaim space to make room for new recordings.  Expiring a 
> non-existent recording doesn't reclaim any space, so it would not server 
> the purpose of the autoexpire function.
>
>   
>> but i don't know how to run this command??? is there a menuitem for it 
>> in the frontend??? can i do it like mythbackend --forcedelete or is it 
>> there and not used (so that i have to write my own program!)
>>     
>
> You can manually delete non-existent recordings through the UI.  If 
> you're using SVN trunk r9490 or 0.19-fixes r10505 or higher, it works 
> without issue (it pops up a dialog saying the file doesn't exist and 
> then allows you to see recording details or delete the metadata from the 
> database).  The challenge is finding the non-existent recordings (which 
> can be done pretty easily with some simple SQL, ls, etc.).
>
> Mike
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i know that i can delete them, but there are a few hundret in the list 
wich don't exist any more... if theres no way to do this, maybe i write 
a small php script for mythweb or i'm looking to implement a new command 
in the main server wich can do that...