[mythtv-users] while looking at mythbackend.log...

[Marco Nelissen]

>Really, there's no reason to delete if you do the touch 
>command--autoexpire will delete it for you.  And, there's no reason to 
>do the touch command if you're deleting manually.

I had a case once where the mpg file was missing, but whenever I tried to
delete the entry from the recordings-list in mythfrontend it would just
tell me that the file was missing, and it wouldn't delete the entry.
I had to touch the file first before mythfrontend would let me delete it.