[mythtv-users] Auto-delete duplicate recordings

Raymond Wagner raymond at wagnerrp.com
Tue Dec 17 12:17:31 UTC 2013


On 12/16/13 23:56, Jacob Strandlien wrote:
> Hello!  I have been trying to find a way to do this for a couple of
> days now with no luck.
> 
> I have a large archive of recordings on a well-used mythbox (0.27)
> and I know I have accumulated a lot of duplicates.  I need to free
> some space, but going through and manually getting rid of the
> duplicates would be a monumental task.
> 
> Is there any mechanism or script available to track down these
> duplicates, and preferably delete all but the newest recording?  I've
> searched the web and poked at my interface with no luck.

If MythTV had any way of knowing they were duplicates, it would have
automatically not recorded them in the first place, unless you
intentionally disabled duplicate detection in the recording rule.


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