I found that the HDTV programs I've recorded are on the hard drive twice:
- once in the myth/tv folder and
- again in the myth/pretty folder.

So, they are taking twice as much hard drive space!

Do both of these files get deleted if the file is set to auto-expire?

If you delete the file name from the Mythfrontend controls, do both get deleted or does one stay?

Eric

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Look again. The /myth/pretty directory should only have symbolic links with "pretty" names that point to the real files. The extra space used is very small.

The files show full size here.

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Of course it's going to fool MS-Windows, if Samba didn't make the links look like real files it wouldn't know what to do with them. Trying to get real disk usage numbers for a Unix system using an MS file browser just isn't going to work.

The command I gave you in my first post will show you the real situation.

Hi,
Pretty is neat huh? Be thankful you see the file sizes, if you see 49 bytes (size of the link) it won't play. I use vlc to play the files when I really have to use M$ 2k. May want to check it out to see if will run on your M$ version.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Mike

MJL: Thanks for the tip on VLC player.

TJC: Thanks for pointing out the Samba limitations.

Keep in mind that there are symbolic files in Windows too - Windows shortcuts.

Apparently, Samba can't translate a Unix symbolic file into a Windows shortcut. I was expecting too much from it, I guess.

Eric

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