[mythtv-users] Clearing autoexpire list of missing recordings

Daryl McDonald darylangela at gmail.com
Mon Feb 24 15:46:58 UTC 2014


On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 10:07 AM, Eric Sharkey <eric at lisaneric.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 9:04 AM, Michael T. Dean
> <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
>> Alternatively, if it's a lot of files, you can use find_orphans.py (as
>> linked previously), which does work fine with 0.27.
>
> This hasn't been my experience.  I would go so far as to say it just
> doesn't work at all.  For me, at least.  It may delete a few
> recordings, but it tends to crash the backend and leave most things
> undeleted.
>
> I'll see if I can run the backend under the debugger and get a stack trace.
>
> Eric
> _______________________________________________
> mythtv-users mailing list
> mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
> http://wiki.mythtv.org/Mailing_List_etiquette
> MythTV Forums: https://forum.mythtv.org

doesn't the OP deleting grayed out recordings after his drive died
indicate that they were deleted improperly, and therefore should be
"touched" so Myth can handle them properly?   Just for my own
clarification.  Daryl


More information about the mythtv-users mailing list