[mythtv-users] deleted show keeps coming back

[R. G. Newbury]

mrwester wrote:
> Michael T. Dean 
> <mtdean at thirdcontact.com <mailto:mtdean at thirdcontact.com>> to Discussion
> 
> 
>      > The problem is that  there is no file associated with
>     it...  nothing to
>      > touch.  If I mouse over the recording name from within mythweb,
>     it gives:
>      > myth://192.168.0.18:6543/file not found.  Any other recording
>     would give
>      > something like: myth://192.168.0.18:6543/1041_20060319150000.mpg
>     and gives
>      > me a file to touch...
> 
>     Use the frontend and look at the logs (frontend and backend logs).
> 
>  From Backend:
> 
> 2006-04-02 13:01:10.478 ERROR when trying to delete file: 
> /video/recordings/file not found. File doesn't exist.  Database 
> metadatawill not be removed.
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> So.... it's looking for a file named "file not found"  I made a file 
> named "file not found" and put it in /video/recordings.  Then I was able 
> to delete the recording... not very intuitive, but it worked...  thanks 
> for the help.

Hhhhhmmmmmm, a file supposedly in the database called 'file not found'???

Did you perchance run the mythrename perl script or a like program? 
Because I doubt you actually entered that name anywhere, so it is 
probably an artifact of an error message *which got put into the database!*

Weirdddddd...

G