[mythtv-users] 0.22 autoexpire behavior

[Michael T. Dean]

On 11/16/2009 04:07 PM, Yan Seiner wrote:
> On Mon, November 16, 2009 12:43 pm, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>   
>> On 11/16/2009 03:37 PM, Yan Seiner wrote:
>>     
>>> So.... I've cleared out some space, and now I'm getting this:
>>>
>>> 2009-11-16 12:32:09.798 AutoExpire: CalcParams(): Max required Free
>>> Space:
>>> 60.0 GB w/freq: 15 min
>>> 2009-11-16 12:32:09.919 ProgramInfo, Error: GetPlaybackURL:
>>> '1281_20081216000000.mpg' should be local, but it can not be found.
>>>
>>>       
>> ...
>>     
>>> 2009-11-16 12:32:10.265 ProgramInfo, Error: GetPlaybackURL:
>>> '1131_20090823173000.mpg' should be local, but it can not be found.
>>>
>>> How do I tie the program names to these numbers so I can see what's
>>> going on?
>>>       
>> Did you clear space by truncating files or by deleting files?  Deleting
>> MythTV recordings files would actually cause the errors above.  (Just
>> verifying before going into more detail.)
>>     
>
> I made space by deleting some non-myth files.  That didn't make any
> difference.  I then deleted the zero-length files after which these errors
> ocurred.
>
> This happened once before; I created the files (touch filename) and then
> the errors went away but auto-delete did not happen.

Perhaps the 0-byte files were ones you had previously touched?  If so, 
are you absolutely certain that they (and their directories) have proper 
permissions to allow mythbackend to delete the files?

Mike