[mythtv-users] find_orphans.py problem with recordings on samba share

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Thomas,

Saturday, November 26, 2016, 6:32:36 PM, you wrote:

> On 24/11/16 00:57, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
>> Not percé as rights management under CIFS works slightly different
>> then under Linux. You can set it up that you can create files, that
>> you afterwards do not own and cannot delete!

> The mythtv user could create and delete files in there. I did some
> further testing.

> I mounted the share with nfs. UID of the mythtv user on the backend is
> the same as the UID of the owner of the share. Same result, recording
> and playback work, but find_orphans.py still thinks almost all
> recordings are orpaned.

> As my backend is a VM with HDHomerun network tuners I created a new
> virtual hard disk, copied all recordings to it and mounted it instead of
> the share. Same result as above.

> Now I re-activated the original backend from where I cloned everything
> into the VM last weekend, mounted the NFS share (it's not feasible for
> me to move the original storage back) and the problem is there too. So I
> think the problem existed already without me noticing it.



> Some hours later...

> I think I cracked it :-)

> Two of my recordings had a ' in their filename. I found some really
> orphaned recordings with

> for i in *.ts *.mpg *.mkv *.mp4;do
>  j=$(mysql --defaults-file=/etc/mysql/debian.cnf \
>  --skip-column-names mythconverg -e \
>  "SELECT basename FROM recorded WHERE basename = \"$i\";")
>     if [ "$j" == "" ];
>       then rm -i "$i";
>     fi;
> done

> After deleting them all seems good now.

> Thomas

How do you get recordings with a quote in the name?


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