[mythtv-users] Database damage?

[Yeechang Lee]

Craig Treleaven says:
> The other issue is that I had nearly 700 recordings that were
> orphaned.  The find_orphans.py script would not get rid of them.

The script is supposed to handle both zero-byte files unassociated with a database entry, and orphaned database entries without a corresponding file. I think what you saw is a different symptom of the general inability of the script to gracefully handle many files.

> So with the output from find_orphans.py and a little massaging with
> awk, xargs and touch, I created zero byte ‘recordings’ for the
> nearly 700 remaining problems.  That’s too many.  When I ask
> find_orphans.py to delete them, the script crashes.  It also crashed
> mythbackend a couple of times.

<https://lists.archive.carbon60.com/mythtv/users/616731#616731> may be helpful.

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