[mythtvnz] Deleting recordings ...

[Simon Green]

2009/5/2 Jim Cheetham <jim at inode.co.nz>:
> Hi guys, I've been happy with my new Myth system, which is currently a
> backend only. Playback comes from a Popcorn Hour A-110, and I'm
> copying files from myth's recordings directory straight into it.
>
> The Popcorn can delete its local copy of the file when it's been
> viewed, and I can rsync that state back to the Myth filesystem ... but
> if I do that, is there a nice utility to tell the Myth DB that the
> show has been deleted?

This was discussed a couple of weeks ago. find_orphans.pl has an
option to automatically delete db entries or files (I haven't used it
myself)

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.

  -- simon