[mythtv-users] mythfilldatabase taking very long time

[Nick Morrott]

On 09/06/2008, Mark Greenwood <fatgerman at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> But I have been shutting it down and starting it back up again quite a lot, sometimes
> during recording and once during a mythfilldatabase session when it took so long
> I thought it had crashed. Is there any way I can check for corruption in my database,
> or anything I can run which will fix it?

You want to run optimize_mythdb.pl to check your database - details
are on the wiki and in the installation docs. If you do have any bad
tables in the database, it should flag them and fix them for you.

-- 
Nick Morrott

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