Recordings cleaning up

[heffneil]

Guys,

I really need help cleaning up my recordings directory. I have a lot of orphaned files from stuff I was watching live. I believe the mpg file was deleted but the edl and other "stuff" still exists. Is there a simple batch script that works and cleaning up those files? I haven't installed the sage queue program because it is very overwhelming and that makes it cumbersome for the two tasks I need perform in regards to my recoding files.

If you have any tips or tricks up your sleeve please let me know!

Thanks!

Neil

[wrems]

Are you using Tmiranda's integrated comskip? I believe in the config options in detailed setup there is a way to cleanup the orphaned files... From memory though.

[wrems]

You could use Dirmon2 to maintain things too.

[heffneil]

There are clean up options but they don't appear to have ever worked. I recently moved my installation from Windows 2003 Server to Windows 7 and since doing so dirmon2 can not install itself as a service. I haven't gone through the trouble of registering it manually with srvany but considered it?

[razrsharpe]

i have the same problem and have been meaning to either find or write a little program to go through and purge orphaned files... i just haven't gotten there yet

[heffneil]

We can't be the first people to be OCD enough to want to clean that directory up. I figured someone must have a script or something that finds .ts or .mpg files and if don't exists deletes the files with the same name before the period. I have seen guys write something like this in linux in the shell. Its like for every fille in the directory look for .mpg or .ts and if it isn't found delete it?

Neil

[vividweb]

There is also Sage Artifact Delete http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/show...light=artifact but have not used it.

[graywolf]

Originally Posted by heffneil

We can't be the first people to be OCD enough to want to clean that directory up. I figured someone must have a script or something that finds .ts or .mpg files and if don't exists deletes the files with the same name before the period. I have seen guys write something like this in linux in the shell. Its like for every fille in the directory look for .mpg or .ts and if it isn't found delete it?

Neil

here is quick/cheap/dirty (from memory). UNTESTED but should get you started.
Not sure how to do it for windows. Better at ksh scripts than windows bat.

#!/bin/ksh
SCRIPT_NAME=$0
CHECK_DIR=$1
LOG_FILE="cleanup.log"
cd ${CHECK_DIR}
echo `date` > ${LOG_FILE}

FILELIST=`ls * | grep -v "*.mpg" | grep -v "*.ts" | awk '{print $NF}'`

for SEARCH_FILE in ${FILELIST} ; do
   FILE_NAME=`echo ${SEARCH_FILE} | awk -F "." '{print $1}'`
   if [[ -f "${FILE_NAME}.mpg" || -f "${FILE_NAME}.ts" ]] ; then
      echo "${FILE_NAME} mpg or ts file exists" >> ${LOG_FILE}
   else
## rm command commented out until testing/verification is done
#      rm -f ${SEARCH_FILE}
      echo "deleted (or would have) ${SEARCH_FILE}" >> ${LOG_FILE}
   fi
done
exit

[razrsharpe]

Originally Posted by vividweb

There is also Sage Artifact Delete http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/show...light=artifact but have not used it.

going from memory here... but SAD works with the new event system... so it can be used for files that are newly deleted... but to clean up the older orphans it doesn't work.

[nyplayer]

Originally Posted by heffneil

There are clean up options but they don't appear to have ever worked. I recently moved my installation from Windows 2003 Server to Windows 7 and since doing so dirmon2 can not install itself as a service. I haven't gone through the trouble of registering it manually with srvany but considered it?

You can run the hidden DIRMON2... setup the files to clean up... then run the Dirmon batch file. You will find it in programs Dirmon2.

[gplasky]

Yeah-I use Dirmon2 to run comskip and all my orphans get cleaned up with Dirmon2.

Gerry