Somehow I managed to delete five programs without the entries being removed from the recorded program listing. When I try to delete them in the "remove recordings" section of the interface they go away for about 5 seconds then pop right back. I have poked around in the TV recordings directory and there a physically not there.

Would someone mind pointing me to a readme or something that will help get rid of those recordings from the database permanently. I've searched and can't find a similar problem in these forums yet.

Thx, RJ

VXAgent

I had this happened when I deleted a file manually. If I recall I recreated the files, as user mythtv:
touch /myth/tv/filename
and the associated name:
touch /myth/tv/filename.png

But before doing that you need to find the filenames. I think it showed up in /var/log/messages but don't remember, try:

su
grep -iR can\'t /var/log/ | less

I think it said something like it can't find file to delete.

OK here is what I did to fix this. Anyone running into the same problem may find this useful. I have been struggling with this for weeks now before the original post.

I searched the logs according to mythedoff's suggestion (thanks man). However there was nothing in the logs - anywhere - that gave me a filename that I could use.

I studied up on SQL commands since I have no background with databases. Using the MySQL module in webmin i executed this

SELECT *
FROM recorded
WHERE title LIKE '%name_here%'

and got back four entries that listed the original filename. I used mythedoff's syntax again (thx man once more) and created the files. I noticed that the list in mythweb now indicated the files had a reasonable size instead of just zero bytes. I used the mythweb interface to delete them and they are gone for good.


Thanks mythedoff for the suggestions. They were very helpful. And thanks to the entire Knoppmyth community for being helpful - these forums are great.