Is there an easy way to delete orphan support files?

[dinki]

Hey guys. I'm using the SAD (Sage Artifact Deletion) plugin to remove supporting files (mostly comskip related files) from shows I manually delete. This is great but I've found that I've got a ton of orphaned .incommercial, .logo.txt, .edl, etc files that I'd really like to delete.

Does anyone know of an easy way to check if an mpg does not exist for a list of the above extensions and if it doesn't then have those files deleted?

[nyplayer]

Use Dirmon2

[tmiranda]

If your using CommercialDetector just add those extensions to the list of files to cleanup. That will take care of the future. You'll have to manually delete the existing orphans.

[dinki]

Originally Posted by nyplayer

Use Dirmon2

Oh yeah, forgot I used to use that to launch comskip. I'll have to see if I can remember how to set it up again.

Originally Posted by tmiranda

If your using CommercialDetector just add those extensions to the list of files to cleanup. That will take care of the future. You'll have to manually delete the existing orphans.

That's the weird part. I'm using CD but it doesn't appear to delete anything. I just checked and I've got it set to delete all of the files (and more) that I listed above.

[tmiranda]

Originally Posted by dinki

That's the weird part. I'm using CD but it doesn't appear to delete anything. I just checked and I've got it set to delete all of the files (and more) that I listed above.

Set the debug log level to Trace and send me a logfile to look it. I've never seen this issue so I'd like to see why it's not working. I'm debating releasing a CD update and if this turns out to be a bug that needs fixing the debate will be over

[dinki]

Originally Posted by tmiranda

Set the debug log level to Trace and send me a logfile to look it. I've never seen this issue so I'd like to see why it's not working. I'm debating releasing a CD update and if this turns out to be a bug that needs fixing the debate will be over

So I turned it on and of course it appears to be working fine. I know that I had problems with this in the past and ended up installing SAD to try and fix what CD wasn't deleting. I'm looking a bit closer at my recordings directory now and see a few files that are orphaned from yesterday:

AntiquesRoadshow-VintagePittsburgh-7380562-0.logo.txt
SesameStreet-GoodbyePacifier-7374856-0.logo.txt
VegasStrip-S01E03-7366332-0.mpg.properties

Now I don't know why these are still hanging on. All of these were live tv and not scheduled recordings. Also, I set up a job with dirmon to delete artifacts yesterday so I could very well be stepping on things with dirmon, CD and SAD all trying to delete orphans. I'll disable dirmon and SAD and see what happens.

*EDIT* All seems to be working fine. Now I just need to get rid of my orphaned files from the past and keep an eye on live recording clean ups. I edited my sage.properties file and changed:

commercial_debug_logging=trace

Is that right? If so, where does the log show up?

[tmiranda]

Don't edit the properties file to turn on debugging, it won't work. Go to the CommercialDetector settings and turn it on from there.

The cleanup is triggered when the core sends a "MediaFileDeleted" event. Sometimes this event is not sent right away so some delay between ending live TV and deleting the orphans can happen.

[dinki]

Gotcha. Set to trace and will report back if I see any more orphans. Thanks!

[dinki]

Found one orphan from last night:

AmericasGotTalent-S07E20-7383002-0.logo.txt

Can you tell me where I can find the log file? checked in the logs subdir but didn't see it.

[nyplayer]

Originally Posted by dinki

Found one orphan from last night:

AmericasGotTalent-S07E20-7383002-0.logo.txt

Can you tell me where I can find the log file? checked in the logs subdir but didn't see it.

Why not just cleanup in comskip the logo file. That way it will be gone when comskip is finished.

in ini
delete_logo_file=1

[dinki]

Originally Posted by nyplayer

Why not just cleanup in comskip the logo file.

in ini
delete_logo_file=1

Double checked and I already have this value set.

[nyplayer]

Originally Posted by dinki

Double checked and I already have this value set.

That leads me to believe that comskip did not fully complete for that show... must have failed somehow and did not get cleaned up.

[dinki]

Perhaps. This was a live tv viewing and not a scheduled recording. May have switched channels before the program finished. Trying to figure out some way to reliably get rid of all these extra files.

[tmiranda]

The logfile is the Sage logfile on the server, located in the same directory as sage.exe. sagetv_0.txt.

If you have delete_logo_file=1 in the comskip.ini probably one of two things is happening:
- You're unknowingly using a different .ini file. CommercialDetector will look for custom .ini files based on show name and channel.
- comskip.exe is crashing (or hanging) and never cleaning up after itself.

I should be able to tell by looking at the logfile.

[dinki]

Thanks for looking. Here's the log file

[tmiranda]

Originally Posted by dinki

Thanks for looking. Here's the log file

Nothing unusual in there. I don't see where "America's Got Talent" was processed, it's probably in an earlier log. Look for logfiles sagetv_1.txt and sagetv_2.txt and see if there are references to "AmericasGotTalent".

If you can't find that then do some channel surfing until you reproduce the problem and then send that logfile.

Thanks,

Tom

[NoodleNT]

Just cleaned up over 9k files from my system!