[mythtv-users] database cleaning after file loss?

[Michael T. Dean]

On 04/07/2014 07:53 AM, Brian Sanders wrote:
> I had an issue with my recordings directory, and have lost all the
> recordings that were in it.  This wasn't a mythtv issue, and now I
> have the drive working and ready to continue recording.  This morning
> I started wondering, does my database now have some dead entries for
> the 800 gig or so of files that were on the disk?  If files are
> deleted out from under a system, does any data in the database about
> these now missing files ever get flushed out?
>
> I really don't expect there to be performance implications for some
> database entries to shows that don't exist.  Still I was curious if
> there is a script or even a mythtv function which can help clean up
> after a loss of data like this.

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Find_orphans.py

Mike