[mythtv-users] Two files after transcoding

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Mon Mar 17 18:06:30 UTC 2014


On 03/17/2014 01:26 PM, Will Dormann wrote:
> I've found find_orphans.py script to be less than reliable.   After
> upgrading my mythtv box, an NFS permissions issue caused recordings to
> fail to be successfully deleted.  This left a lot of orphans taking up
> space on my NAS.
>
> I had to run the script multiple times to get all of the stray files
> cleaned up.

The successive runs that still showed orphans were simply showing files 
that the backend had not yet finished deleting.  Had you just waited, 
they would have disappeared, eventually, with only the one run.

Mike


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