NAS failed; Replaced but now I've got duplicates! Help!

[dinki]

Hey guys. I had a little standalone NAS that I was using for storing 'archived' tv episodes and movies. It appeared to be dying so I bought a replacement and copied everything over to it. Last night it finally died so I removed it from the list of media import directories and added my new NAS as new media imports.

I did a media scan and all seemed well. I have BMT set up so that it imports known tv episodes with the programs I record with my tuners. I now see duplicates for each episode; one version for the old NAS and one for the new. What can I do to clear out all references to the old NAS?

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by dinki

Hey guys. I had a little standalone NAS that I was using for storing 'archived' tv episodes and movies. It appeared to be dying so I bought a replacement and copied everything over to it. Last night it finally died so I removed it from the list of media import directories and added my new NAS as new media imports.

I did a media scan and all seemed well. I have BMT set up so that it imports known tv episodes with the programs I record with my tuners. I now see duplicates for each episode; one version for the old NAS and one for the new. What can I do to clear out all references to the old NAS?

SageTV should automatically clean up its database, eventually. I think on startup, sagetv will check the consistency and verify files... so you can try a restart.

[dinki]

Hmm. Did a service stop/restart and it didn't work. Did a full reboot on the server and that didn't work either. Anything else I can try?

[stanger89]

Sage protects network files that it can't see from being cleaned up by default (to avoid removing files if the network/machine is temporarily unavailable).

To clean up stuff that doesn't exist you can set a property. Just be sure all your paths are online because Sage will remove everything it can't find:
http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/show...th*#post523671

[dinki]

Originally Posted by stanger89

To clean up stuff that doesn't exist you can set a property. Just be sure all your paths are online because Sage will remove everything it can't find:
http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/show...th*#post523671

Worked perfectly. Thank you very much.

[dinki]

Hey guys. I had a standalone NAS device die and I'm trying to remove all references to it from my database. I've removed the source and did a rescan of media. The movies on that drive did get removed but the tv show videos that were imported as recordings are still in the database. Do I need to do something special to purge the old files that were imported as recordings?

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[stanger89]

I'm having a strong deja vu here....
http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/show...able_root_path

[dinki]

HOLY SMOKES! I am like the king of the loser searchers!

Thanks for pointing me to my last failed attempt at this.

[stanger89]

I did a bit of a doubletake when I found that myself