[mythtv-users] Can't use 'delete and allow rerecord' for recordings when the file is missing

[David George]

On 02/21/2009 01:14 AM, jarpublic at gmail.com wrote:
>> myth.find_orphans worked great for me after I patched it to allow re-record.
>>  I posted my patch in ticket 4677 and it has been committed, but you need to
>> be running trunk to get it.  The patch should work against fixes if you want
>> to download and apply manually.  I also added a dryrun option so you can see
>> what it is going to do before it does it.
>>
>> Link to thread about this:
>> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/316801#316801
>> Link to ticket: http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/4677
>>     
>
> That is good to know. I looked through the script myself and almost
> started to add in the changes. It looked straightforward to add a
> couple of lines to remove the record from oldrecorded in addition to
> recorded. I know zero mysql though, and was fairly certain I would
> muck it up. I got things to work by using touch to create some empty
> files and then just did 'delete and allow re-record' from the
> frontend. I'm just curious and I couldn't tell in the thread you
> linked to, do your changes make it so it is the same as using the
> 'delete and allow re-record' option, or does it remove the recordings
> from the database entirely?

Yes, it is the same as delete and re-record.  It sets duplicate to 0 in 
oldrecorded which is the same as mythweb does (at least at the time I 
created the patch).

-- 
David
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