[mythtv-users] Does .25 still use find_orphans.py

[Dan Wilga]

On 5/5/12 11:06 AM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 05/05/2012 10:40 AM, Brent Bolin wrote:
>> Or has that been replaced/included
>
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Find_orphans.py says it's compatible with 0.25
>
>> I find myself running this at least once a week to clean up orphaned
>> snapshots and occasional mpg files.
>
> However, if you actually need to run it frequently (where once a week 
> is extremely frequently), there's a serious problem with your system.  
> It should only be required when you have a hard drive failure (or if 
> someone is deleting files outside of MythTV, in which case, you should 
> fix the behavior, not the symptom).

That's not entirely true. Mythtranscode will also leave (sometimes very 
large) .tmp files sitting around when it segfaults or otherwise 
terminates abnormally, which Find_orphans.py will tell you about and 
provide an easy way to remove.

-- 
Dan Wilga                                                        "Ook."