[mythtv-users] Can't use 'delete and allow rerecord' for recordings when the file is missing

[jarpublic at gmail.com]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Michael T. Dean
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
>
> On 02/20/2009 09:11 PM, jarpublic at gmail.com wrote:
> > I lost all of my recordings, but that is a story in another thread. I
> > want to clear out all of the recordings from the database now, so that
> > when they come on again they will be recorded rather being skipped
> > because mythtv thinks they are previously recorded. My plan was to
> > select them in the watch recordings and the choose 'delete and allow
> > rerecord'. However, my only option for recordings with the source file
> > missing is 'delete'. I tried using the 'delete+record' option in
> > mythweb but that fails and does nothing. I am aware of the
> > mythtv.find_orphans script, but from what I can tell it just removes
> > the orphaned recordings from the recorded table. If I do that will the
> > shows still be in the previously recorded table and thus will not
> > record when they are aired again? Will the find orphans script work
> > for me. Or is there some manual way of removing these from the
> > previously recorded table?
>
> Hit Delete, then in the "Are you sure" prompt, choose "Yes, Delete and
> allow re-record."
>

I couldn't get the allow re-record to work when the source files
weren't present. I made a playlist of all the recordings, then I used
the playlist options to choose delete and allow re-record. It let me
select it but it had no effect. The same thing happened when I did it
in mythweb. I ended up using myth.find_orphans to produce a list of
the filenames that had been orphaned. Then I fed that to touch and it
created empty files for all of the recordings. Then running the delete
and allow rerecord on the playlist worked successfully. I double
checked a couple of them in the previously recorded section of manage
recordings and they were marked with an R and at the bottom they said
Re-Record. So I think things worked out. Thanks to everyone who helped
me get this thing back on track.