[outleradam]

I took this idea and modified it a bit to work for me. I wrote a comanion script for mythical librarian that will delete symlinks and the database entry that accompanies them:

Code:

#!/bin/sh

### myth-remove-from-library.sh - Use to remove a sym-linked mythtv recording and it's database entries

#Grab command line arguments
VIDEODIR=$1
FILENAME=$2

#Make sure we got command line arguments
if [ -z "${VIDEODIR}" -o -z "${FILENAME}" ]; then
        echo "Usage: $0 <VideoDirectory> <FileName> "
        exit 5
fi

#Test that input files exists and is a symbolic link (we don't want to delete actual recordings)
if [ ! -h "${VIDEODIR}/${FILENAME}" ]; then
        echo "File does not exist or is not a symbolic link: ${VIDEODIR}/${FILENAME}"
        exit 6
fi

#Remove recording entry from 'mythconverg' mysql database
    echo "Removing ${FILENAME} from recorded table"
        cat << EOF | mysql -u mythtv -pmythtv mythconverg
DELETE FROM
        recorded
WHERE
        basename = '${FILENAME}';
EOF

#Remove symblink file and thumbnails
    echo "Removing ${FILENAME} file and thumbnails"
    rm -f ${VIDEODIR}/${FILENAME}
    rm -f ${VIDEODIR}/${FILENAME}.*

exit 0

I then just added a command to execute this script. I added this to mythicalLibrarian.sh in the "MOVE" section, after the Success message is written:

Code:

...
#Send notification to daily report log
             dailyreport "$ShowFileName"
              echo "@@@@@@@@@@@@@OPERATION COMPLETE" `date` "@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@">>"$mythicalLibrarian"/output.log
            #Use script to remove the sym-link and database entry from mythtv
            /home/mythtv/myth-remove-from-library.sh "`dirname "$3"`" "`basename "$3"`"
               exit 0
...

Works like a charm. Now I know that any videos still hanging out in the mythtv recordings are not being recognized by mythical librarian and need to be moved manually.

I could add this in as a function for "SYMLINK=Disabled", with your permsision of course.