[mythtv-users] find_orphans fails

[Michael Wisniewski]

On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 8:27 AM, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>
wrote:

> On 04/26/2018 07:07 PM, Michael Wisniewski wrote:
>
>> I'm running:
>>
>> 2:29.1+fixes.20180412.329c235-0ubuntu0mythbuntu2
>>
>> on Ubuntu 17.10.  I removed a number of recordings from the command line
>> while I was archiving my shows.  I was planning on using find_orphans to
>> remove the references in the database but that step isn't working.  When I
>> run it, it lists the "Recordings without files", and when I try to delete
>> the recording entries, nothing happens.
>>
>> I saw a patch for find_orphans on the mailing list from a bit of time
>> ago, but that didn't work either.  I'm using the find_orphans from the wiki
>> page that says it works with .29, but I'm just having a problem with it.
>>
>> Is find_orphans still the right script to use to remove the references
>> from the database, or should I be using something else?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>
> Are you sure that nothing happens, or are you just assuming nothing
> happens?  The script simply tells the backend to delete the shows. The
> backend then has to do so. It can take time (especially when it's a long
> list of shows to delete--even if there are no files), so if you re-run the
> script shortly after running it the first time, you may still see a large
> number of orphaned shows, even though the backend has been told to/is
> working on deleting them.
>
>
Thanks for the response. You are 100% correct; I'm just impatient.  It
turns out that when I checked back today those orphaned files were
removed.

Thank You!
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