[mythtv-users] while looking at mythbackend.log...

[Michael T. Dean]

On 11/26/2006 07:05 AM, Rudy Zijlstra wrote:
> Udo van den Heuvel wrote:
>   
>> While looking at mythbackend.log I notice these:
>>
>> 2006-11-26 12:34:15.580 AutoExpire: ERROR when trying to autoexpire
>> file: /mnt/store//2_20061119150603.mpg. File doesn't exist.  Database
>> metadata will not be
>> removed.
>>
>> This is one of the shows that has no mpeg files anymore but still is in
>> the database. Removing it through MythWeb does not really work (see my
>> previous post), so what is the best way to approach this situation?
> Go into mythfrontend, and delete from there. That will work. 
> Alternatively, do a
> "touch /mnt/store//2_20061119150603.mpg" and then delete.

Really, there's no reason to delete if you do the touch 
command--autoexpire will delete it for you.  And, there's no reason to 
do the touch command if you're deleting manually.

Mike