<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 12:51, Michael T. Dean <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mtdean@thirdcontact.com">mtdean@thirdcontact.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Find_orphans.py" target="_blank">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Find_orphans.py</a> is the supported script.<br></blockquote><div><br>Thanks for the pointer. I also see that the wiki page that I linked above has been updated too. Delightful!<br>
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It's purely informational (and, therefore, can not corrupt your database or delete all your recordings if you don't use it properly--things that happened with the old scripts) and requires that you do (and, therefore, agree to) the final cleanup. So, for example, you would delete recordings with missing files using mythfrontend's Watch/Delete Recordings screen; or you would rm or mv video (or other) files with no recording metadata (usually move the video files into MythVideo, and potentially use Previously Recorded to allow the episode to re-record).<br>
</blockquote><div><br>Great to know! And for what it's worth, I too think that's the right approach for this tool. I just ran it, and I do indeed have some cleaning to do. I definitely appreciate that I have to (get to, actually) do it myself rather than potentially being surprised by a result I didn't expect or want.<br>
<br>$0.02,<br>EW<br></div></div>