[mythtvnz] Undeletable recordings

[Nick Rout]

On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 7:49 AM, Paulgir <paulgir at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

It finds lists of orphaned recordings (ie in the database but no
corresponding file) and orphaned files (file exists but corresponding
db entry) and gives you a chance to delete them,