[mythtv-users] lost recordings and database orphans

[Greg Woods]

On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 02:23 -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote:

> 
> 1. First, make sure your Deleted recording group is empty.  To do this, 
> you have 2 options:
>    a. If you'd like to keep any existing Deleted recordings you have:
>      i. go to Watch Recordings
>      ii. find the Deleted recording group in the left column (you may 
> have to change Group View andor Group Filter to see it)
>      iii. then MENU|Add this Group to Playlist
>      iv. then MENU|Playlist options|Change Recording Group
>      v. type in some temporary group name, like "old Deleted"
>    b. If you don't care to keep existing Deleted recordings:
>      i. go to Watch Recordings
>      ii. find the Deleted recording group in the left column (you may 
> have to change Group View andor Group Filter to see it)
>      iii. then MENU|Add this Group to Playlist
>      iv. then MENU|Playlist options|Delete (and don't worry--any that 
> you had already deleted with "Delete, and allow re-record" will still be 
> allowed to re-record)
> 2. Do as above to change the recorded.recgroup to Deleted for all 
> recordings whose files are missing
> 3. Make a script to "touch <basename>" for each recording you put in the 
> Deleted recording group in step 2 and run it in any directory in the 
> Default storage group
> 4. Go to Watch Recordings
> 5. Find the Deleted recording group in the left column (you may have to 
> change Group View andor Group Filter to see it)
> 6. Then select MENU|Add this Group to Playlist
> 7. Then MENU|Playlist options|Delete, and allow re-record
> 8. If you chose 1.a, above, repeat the steps for 1.a, except change the 
> recording group back to Deleted


I must have screwed something up doing this, because the result of this
was that ALL my recordings were removed from the DB. But at least I
could clear out the remaining ones and start over. Thanks for all your
help.

--Greg