[mythtv-users] Deleting orphaned recording entries

[Karl Newman]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 11:07 PM, James Peroulas <james at peroulas.com> wrote:

>
> On 10/09/14 05:49, James Peroulas wrote:
>> > I run find_orphans.py, select 'delete orphaned recording entries' and it
>> > then proceeds to delete 2-10 of these recordings and then simply stops
>> > deleting them. In other words, repeatedly selecting 'Refresh list' from
>> > find_orphans.py shows the Count of orphaned recordings decreasing by
>> > 2-10, and then this value stops decreasing.
>> >
>> > Is there another way to delete these orphaned recordings?
>
>
>> Give it some time to delete these recordings. If you keep running
>> find_orphans.py in quick succession you will only see that it finished
>> deleting a few recordings. Depending on your filesytem and settings in
>> mythtv it will take some time to delete them. Just let it do it's job
>> and check again in a few hours.
>
>
> Hi all, thanks for your suggestions. Some clarification:
>
> The steps I'm taking are:
> 1) Reboot MythTV computer
> 2) Run find_orphans.py
> 3) Select "delete orphaned recording entries" (only one time!)
> 4) Select "refresh list" (repeatedly)
>
> When I select "refresh list" repeatedly, in the beginning, I do observe
> the "orphaned recording" count decreasing, slowly. However, after
> decreasing by 2-10 entries, it stops decreasing further, even if I wait for
> hours... Hours later, if I select "delete orphaned recording entries"
> again, it deletes a few more before again stopping...
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> James
>

Did you run mythfrontend to see if the recordings are in the Deleted group?
If they are, and you want them gone immediately, just highlight the Deleted
group, press menu, select Add All to Playlist, then press menu again and
delete playlist. Something like that; I'm not in front of my mythtv system
so I don't know the exact steps but it's along those lines.

Karl
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