[mythtv-users] Two files after transcoding

[Daryl McDonald]

On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 7:03 PM, Thomas Boehm
<mythtv-users at lists.boehmi.net> wrote:
> On 16/03/14 22:29, Daryl McDonald wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 5:56 PM, Thomas Boehm
>> <mythtv-users at lists.boehmi.net> wrote:
>>> On 16/03/14 21:16, Daryl McDonald wrote:
>>>> I just tallied up the "old" files and there are 262 GB's of them. Can
>>>> anyone tell me the myth sanctioned way to free up this space?
>>>
>>> I think the find_orphans.py script should find and offer to delete them.
>>
>> I'm not so sure they're orphans, they are original recordings that
>> have been transcoded and kept due to not un-checking the box in set-up
>> "Save original files after transcoding
>> (globally)"., and then marked as "old" in the mythtv/recordings file.
>> I could manually delete them, but not wanting to create orphans, I
>> await the wisdom of this list for experienced direction.   Thanks in
>> advance   Daryl
>
> If "marked as old" means that they are renamed to *.old, then *they are*
> orphans for MyhTV. Can you please run the script? It will not delete
> anything before you confirm it.
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Here is the result of the script:

Recordings with missing files
  daryl-A780L3C: News (Manual Record) - 2013-12-11 18:00:00
      1261_20131211225700.mpg

           Count:           1
Zero byte recordings
  daryl-A780L3C: Unknown
      5281_20130609200333.mpg

           Count:           1
Database backups
  daryl-a780l3c:
/var/lib/mythtv/db_backups/mythconverg-1317-20140216100312.sql.gz
      22.5MB
  daryl-a780l3c:
/var/lib/mythtv/db_backups/mythconverg-1317-20140223034135.sql.gz
      22.4MB
  daryl-a780l3c:
/var/lib/mythtv/db_backups/mythconverg-1317-20140302134718.sql.gz
      19.0MB
  daryl-a780l3c:
/var/lib/mythtv/db_backups/mythconverg-1317-20140309154953.sql.gz
      24.8MB
  daryl-a780l3c:
/var/lib/mythtv/db_backups/mythconverg-1317-20140316061853.sql.gz
      26.4MB

           Total:     115.0MB
Other files
  daryl-a780l3c:
/var/lib/mythtv/recordings/1021_20140202233000.mpg.old
      22.0GB
  daryl-a780l3c: /var/lib/mythtv/recordings/1022_20130605151500
                        0.0B
  daryl-a780l3c: /var/lib/mythtv/recordings/1042_20130608160000
                        0.0B
  daryl-a780l3c: /var/lib/mythtv/recordings/1073_20130605213000
                        0.0B
  daryl-a780l3c:
/var/lib/mythtv/recordings/1091_20131209010000.mpg.old
      15.3GB
  daryl-a780l3c:
/var/lib/mythtv/recordings/1091_20131228010000.mpg.old
      15.3GB
  daryl-a780l3c:
/var/lib/mythtv/recordings/1621_20131113030100.mpg.old
       8.1GB
  daryl-a780l3c:
/var/lib/mythtv/recordings/1621_20140301030000.mpg.old
       8.2GB
  daryl-a780l3c:
/var/lib/mythtv/recordings/2010_20130929210000.mpg.old
     104.5MB
  daryl-a780l3c:
/var/lib/mythtv/recordings/2010_20130929210600.mpg.old
       4.4GB
  daryl-a780l3c:
/var/lib/mythtv/recordings/2013_20140128030000.mpg.old
       2.3GB
  daryl-a780l3c:
/var/lib/mythtv/recordings/2033_20131120040000.mpg.old
       3.5GB
  daryl-a780l3c:
/var/lib/mythtv/recordings/2045_20140111020000.mpg.old
       4.7GB
  daryl-a780l3c: /var/lib/mythtv/recordings/2046_20130613090000
                        0.0B
  daryl-a780l3c:
/var/lib/mythtv/recordings/2051_20140126030000.mpg.old
       7.6GB
  daryl-a780l3c: /var/lib/mythtv/recordings/2406_20130624090000
                        0.0B
  daryl-a780l3c: /var/lib/mythtv/recordings/2961_20130622221000
                        0.0B
  daryl-a780l3c: /var/lib/mythtv/recordings/3196_20130629210000
                        0.0B
  daryl-a780l3c: /var/lib/mythtv/recordings/3197_20130616200000
                        0.0B
  daryl-a780l3c: /var/lib/mythtv/recordings/3197_20130630200000
                        0.0B
  daryl-a780l3c:
/var/lib/mythtv/recordings/3247_20140301010000.mpg.old
     795.8MB
  daryl-a780l3c: /var/lib/mythtv/recordings/4981_20130609210000
                        0.0B

           Total:      92.4GB
Please select from the following
 1. Delete orphaned recording entries
 2. Delete zero byte recordings
 3. Delete other files
 4. Refresh list

So now I should go ahead with all four of these options? Yes?