[mythtv-users] Metadata Lookup Errored in Backend Log - On Every Recording.

[Greg Grotsky]

On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>wrote:

> In theory you'll never get any orphans unless "someone" does something bad.
>   a) Something deletes MythTV recording files via the file system
> rather than using MythTV to delete them.
>   b) Something edits the database directly.
>   c) A HDD dies and you lose files as a result (in this case, running
> find_orphans.py is a good idea).
>
> So, really, there's no reason to run it unless someone does bad things
> or you lose a HDD.
>
> FWIW, I've never had any orphaned recording files (files without
> metadata in my database) and the only orphaned recording metadata (with
> missing files on the file system) I've ever had were due to losing files
> when HDDs fail.  I do, occasionally, get a few orphaned preview images,
> but their total size is always tiny compared to recordings and, we'll
> likely prevent that from occurring with changes coming for 0.26.
>
>

That's pretty awesome, this fixed my problem!  Thanks for the help guys!
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