ComSkip files left behind (1 Viewer)

[Peter2]

Guys, I have discovered this very nice feature not so long ago and had it running on MP 1.0.2 - by manually installing/configuring it.
Now, it seems as if it's part of RC2/RC3 or is this because it was found in my program files?

With RC2/RC3 it still works fine but I have 1 issue though: after deleting a recording, the additional comskip files remain on the system and have to be deleted manually - if you don't want it to become a mess.
Am I missing something or is this just something you have live with when using comskip?

Deleting with a batch file is also not an option because there is no way to distinguish the difference between the files that have to stay and the once that can be deleted. (unless maybe some advanced way that except for every .ts file found and it's matching comskip data, the comskip files can be deleted but that's out of my league)

 

[Peter2]

BUMP

Am I the only one with this issue or are we 'all' just going to another pc to delete those files manually?

 

[jameson_uk]

which files are they? By default Comskip will create several files
(not at HTPC but I think they are:
log
logo.log
edl
txt
)

and possibly others. I believe MP only needs the TXT file. I have set the Comskip ini file to not create the others.

I am fairly sure that the TXT file is removed when you delete a recording

 

[Peter2]

Hi jameson_uk, yes it's those files;
- .edl
- .log
- .logo.txt
- .txt

I just started using comskip and I saw that there are possibilities to tune it but didn't get into that yet.
Strange that those files are not needed and still created...

 

[geoffstewart]

Peter,

Set the following items in your comskip.ini to leave only the .txt file:

delete_logo_file=1
output_edl=0
verbose=0

Comskip is not just for MediaPortal... the .txt is the only thing MP uses, but other tools and programs use other formats.

Cheers.

Geoff

 

[Peter2]

Hi Geoff, thank you for this info!
Since comskip gets more integrated in MP, deleting a recording should also check for comskip files.

 

[usualsuspect]

AW: ComSkip files left behind

Deleting with a batch file is also not an option because there is no way to distinguish the difference between the files that have to stay and the once that can be deleted. (unless maybe some advanced way that except for every .ts file found and it's matching comskip data, the comskip files can be deleted but that's out of my league)

I once created a batch the other way around, but this could be helpful for you, too: https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/plugins-erweiterungen-178/comskip-atomatisieren-per-batch-73753/

here a quick draft:

@echo off
rem deletes left over files (in active dir and subdirs) %%I.* (eg from comskip) when the recording %%I.ts is no longer avaiable
rem
FOR /R %%I IN (*.*) DO IF NOT EXIST "%%~dI%%~pI%%~nI.ts" (
	del %%~nI.*
)
exit

IMPORTANT: I did not check it till now. therefore be sure to DO NOT run this batch in your actual recordings directory before checking!!!


edit: I just checked the batch and it works fine. BUT be careful: it will delete all files xyz.* that do not have a corresponding xyz.ts file. (even the batch itself, so be sure to have a clean.ts file when your batch is named clean.bat)

To make it a little bit more specific, you may change the batch to something like:

FOR /R %%I IN (*.*) DO IF NOT EXIST "%%~dI%%~pI%%~nI.ts" (
	del %%~nI.txt
	del %%~nI.log
	del %%~nI.xyz
)

 

[Peter2]

Hi usualsuspect, just noticed that I had never replied to your batch solution...
Thanks a lot for it and even knowing some batch programming, it added some knowledge about the 'FOR' command which I had never used.

There is 1 thing though which I cannot solve: running the file manually works fine but when I shedule it, the windows scheduler runs it from the c:\windows\system directory instead of where my recordings are.
I have tried to modify it by adding the recordings directory but without success.
Reading about the syntax and switches on the FOR command didn't bring any enlightening either.

Do you have any idea if this can be solved and how?
Thanks a lot in advance!

Peter

 

[usualsuspect]

AW: ComSkip files left behind

hi peter,

you may just navigate to your rec-dir within the batch by adding this
C: (or D: or X)
cd\files\recs

before calling the FOR command.