[mythtv-users] How to remove orphaned recordings?

[Mike Holden]

Nicolas Will wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-04-18 at 15:51 +0200, Udo van den Heuvel wrote:
>> stuart wrote:
>> > Question: How to remove orphaned recordings?
>>
>> There is a perl (?) script in the contributions area of install that
>> does this.
>
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Myth.find_orphans.pl
>
> perl /usr/share/doc/mythtv-backend/contrib/myth.find_orphans.pl
>
> on Ubuntu
>
> --dodelete to delete files without DB entries
> --dodbdelete to delete DB entries without files

But make sure you run it *without* either of those options until you are
happy with what it proposes to do, otherwise you may end up asking for
more help!
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