[mythtvnz] Undeletable recordings

[Paulgir]

On Sat, 04 Aug 2012 13:51:07 +1200, Stephen Worthington  
<stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:

> 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.
>

What exactly does find_orphans.py do?
I have run it in the past and it didn't seem to do anything.