[mythtv-users] bogus recording needs to be cleaned out

[John P. Hoke]

On 9/30/05, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Good evening,
> There is a recording showing up in MythTV that doesn't play and
> doesn't show a preview. When I try to delete it Myth acts like it's
> going to delete it, but the name in the menu doesn't go away.
>
> When I look in the backend logs I see this:
>
> 2005-09-30 19:29:06.609 ERROR when trying to delete file:


/video/1009_20050923120000_20050923130000.nuv. File doesn't exist.
> Database metadata will not be removed.
>
>
> How can I clean up the database to remove this program from the
> list of recorded show?
>
> Thanks,
> Mark


The easy way...
@ a linux command promt type:
touch /video/1009_20050923120000_20050923130000.nuv

Then delete it from MythTv as usual :)

The problem is myth is trying to delete something that doesnt exist, so the
above fakes it
--
John P. Hoke
http://john.hoke.org/
john.hoke at gmail.com
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