Overview

I have had a number of recordings that I just can’t delete. Some were when I was experimenting with MythArchive and others were just standard deletes.

In my case I try to delete and it seems to work but then the recording keeps showing up. When I click on the download though I get a message similar to:

19810301195938.mpg does not exist in any recognized storage group directories for this host.

Resolution

A resolution that worked for me was to first check if the file existed in any of the storage groups. In my case it didn’t. Then do the following

su - mythtv
cd /storage
touch 19810301195938.mpg

Obviously this is where I have a storage group at “/storage”

After this try to delete normally.