[mythtvnz] Undeletable recordings

[Paulgir]

On Sun, 05 Aug 2012 10:07:51 +1200, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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,

So does it output a list in terminal or create a text file?
When I ran it'I did not seem to get any response.Maybe there weren't any  
orphans to report