[mythtv-users] Is there an approved may to remove frontend settings?

[Michael T. Dean]

On 02/02/2014 12:43 PM, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
> I personally like cleanliness.  But unless you really really understand
> the business logic of the MythTV application, and how it uses the DB
> info, deleting or modifying the DB directly is likely to result in "something
> bad happening" at some point.

And the likelihood of your noticing the bad in time to use the backup is 
small--especially when making anything other than trivial changes.  
Backups aren't protection against breaking data broken data doesn't show 
up until you try to use that data--unless you've figured out a way to 
test /all/ of the data that's been modified/deleted/inserted...  Since 
the data integrity/data constraints are all expressed in application 
code, there's generally no indication of problems until long after 
you've made the changes--and long after tonight's recordings were 
created and other changes to your system have occurred.

Mike