Gavin Haslett wrote:
If you REALLY want to clean up serious cruft, you should do what I plan to do
this weekend, which is to NUVEXPORT all your recordings out to NUV and SQL
files, trash the database and merge everything back in. Sounds like a lot of
work, and it is... but I've been looking at my database and filesystem lately
and they don't match. I have more NUV files than I have recordings, so
apparently I've got orphaned files out there. I also appear to have a couple of
orphaned database entries that show up in NUVEXPORT selector, but have no
associated files. I need to clean this up so I'm going to go the
export/trash/import route.
Only problem with this is it does mean that I'll have to re-create all my
settings again... but that's not a huge problem for me as I have a mostly
default setup.
You can always do a selective restore. Just take the SQL you dump from
the database backup and edit out anything you don't want--i.e. all the
entries pertaining to the recorded table.
However, since you'll need to match your recordings with
titles/subtitles/descriptions, it may make more sense just to start from
your current database. You can run a script to check for mismatches.
For example, myth.rebuilddatabase.pl (in the contrib directory) will
inform you of any mismatches and it asks you to enter
title/subtitle/description for those recordings not in your database.
If you simply want to know what mismatches exist, you could modify
myth.rebuilddatabase.pl to find and list all the mismatches.
Mike
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