[mythtvnz] Missing file

[Noel & Di]

So how does one implement this command?
I have a few known orphan files consuming space, but have been unsure 
how to remove them without upsetting the front end & more importantly 
the WAF.
Noel

Nick Rout wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Hadley Rich <hads at nice.net.nz> wrote:
>   
>> On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 07:57:48 James Booth wrote:
>>     
>>> It's always the same file.The file in question does not exist - how can I
>>> fix this?
>>>       
>> Either remove the file from the recorded table or create the file on disk using
>> touch. The backend should figure things out from there.
>>
>> hads
>>     
>
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Myth.find_orphans.pl
>
> myth.find_orphans.pl is a perl script in the contrib directory for
> finding orphaned rows in the recorded table (entries which don't have
> matching media files) and orphaned media files (potentially taking up
> gigabytes of otherwise usable disk space) which have no matching row
> in the recorded table.
>
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