Can't delete recordings from MythTV if no file exists

[xris]

Seems silly to prevent deleting a recording if the file is gone from disk:

2012-03-26 01:10:32.674928 E [28485/28582] ProcessRequest? mainserver.cpp:2580 (DoHandleDeleteRecording?) - ERROR when trying to delete file: GetPlaybackURL/UNABLE/TO/FIND/LOCAL/FILE/ON/mythtv.forevermore.net/1110_20120319234119.mpg. File doesn't exist. Database metadata will not be removed.

Maybe this is to prevent deleting things for a temporarily-offline disk? Seems an odd use case to me, though.

[stuartm]

This seems to be an artefact of the auto-expire/deleted recgroup code, it worked fine when deletions were done immediately.

[patrick.wirth@…]

I got this when I manually moved some files from my 'recordings' to my 'videos' folder and renamed them for long term storage (they were kids movies that I was tired of seeing in the daily lineup).

I think I also got this if I rebooted the backend while something was recording (to unjam a card). My quick fix was to touch the associated filenames in the 'recordings' folder as the mythtv user. The touched files and extra png files would disappear or I guess they were expired...

This avoids having to muck with sql in the database to nuke the bad entries.

P

[stuartm]

This was fixed a few months back.