[mythtvnz] Undeletable recordings

[Stephen Worthington]

On Sat, 04 Aug 2012 11:04:48 +1200, you wrote:

>Hi Folks
>
>I have found a few of my earliest recordings won't delete using the menu  
>'Delete Forever" option.I prefer to delete this way for
>
>recordings I am done with, rather than wait for expiry.
>
>They disappear from the Deleted items view for a minute or so and then  
>reappear.
>
>Is it ok to delete the files from the recordings folder manually?

You can, but you need to fixup the database.  There is a nice script
here:

  http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Find_orphans.py

that does the job for 0.24 and 0.25.

But you might like to first check the permissions on the files that
will not delete.