[mythtv-users] Upgrade Mythbuntu 10.04 0.23 to 0.25 autoexpire failing now?

[Michael T. Dean]

On 09/03/2013 08:35 PM, Stephen Worthington wrote:
> On Wed, 04 Sep 2013 08:16:20 +1200, you wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2013-09-03 at 16:19 +1200, tortise wrote:
>>> On 2/09/2013 11:45 p.m., Thomas Boehm wrote:
>>>> tortise wrote:
>>>>> Possibly this answers?
>> Is it possible you have orphaned recordings files filling the HDDs?
>>
>> Maybe mythtv failed to delete recording files (in past)&  the actual
>> files exist in the real filesystem.
>>
>> There is an "orphaned recordings" script that should do no harm..
> Get it from here:
>
>    http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Find_orphans.py
>
> If you are using it to delete things, be aware that in later MythTV
> versions, the deleting can take a while and find_orphans.py will
> report the same files as being there when it lists the orphans again
> after a delete command.  Just keep using its "Refresh list" command
> until the files that are being deleted disappear from the list.  But
> it does no harm if you tell it again to delete files that are already
> in the process of being deleted.

Don't let that do /anything/ until you've fixed your broken Storage 
Groups definitions.  It will tell you you're missing all of the 
recordings from the file systems that MythTV isn't seeing, and if you 
let it delete them, you'll end up with a bunch of files to sort through, 
figure out what they are, and stick into Video Library.

First step is to fix your SGs so that MythTV can see/use them.  This is 
almost definitely either a change to your file system layout (which 
means changing directories specified in the SG directory list) or 
permissions problems.

Mike