[mythtvnz] Undeletable recordings
Stephen Worthington
stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz
Sat Aug 4 02:51:07 BST 2012
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.
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