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Lots of files left after Podcasrt deletion

New postPosted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 1:58 pm
by brandypuff
Blackberry
Podtrapper 3.03.

I just noticed that after delting all my podcast episodes (not the subscriptions),
there are still a lot of files left in the podtrapper directory on my storage card.
There are 55 .DAT, .MV4, MP4 files left behind totally 840MB.

Re: Lots of files left after Podcasrt deletion

New postPosted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 8:48 am
by marwatk
Hi there,

Yeah, this happens if the BB keeps ahold of files when PodTrapper is trying to delete them. It takes steps to purge them, but if it's closed before it is eventually able to they won't get deleted. You can run the pruner to delete them (Settings -> Storage Settings -> Prune orphaned files).

Let me know if that doesn't work for you.

-Marcus

Re: Lots of files left after Podcasrt deletion

New postPosted: Thu Oct 21, 2010 9:52 am
by brandypuff
I tried pruning but got a message something along the lines of: Pruning isn't safe due to the way podtrapper was started.
Not sure what this means but it won't let me prune.

Re: Lots of files left after Podcasrt deletion

New postPosted: Thu Oct 21, 2010 10:10 pm
by marwatk
Hmm, are you running the latest verison? (3.0.3 or later?)

-Marcus

Re: Lots of files left after Podcasrt deletion

New postPosted: Tue Oct 26, 2010 12:20 pm
by brandypuff
Yes. The latest version. I keep getting that message no matter what i try.

Re: Lots of files left after Podcasrt deletion

New postPosted: Tue Oct 26, 2010 1:15 pm
by ewrw4co
WOW, That was helpful! Purged 395 files.

Re: Lots of files left after Podcasrt deletion

New postPosted: Sat Nov 06, 2010 10:43 am
by marwatk
Are you still seeing that, brandypuff?

-Marcus

Re: Lots of files left after Podcasrt deletion

New postPosted: Sat Nov 06, 2010 4:07 pm
by brandypuff
Yes, so occassionally i just purge them. However. i think last time i did that it may have reset my subscriptions and
it downloaded ones I've aready watched. Can't say for sure though. I'll watch closely next time i do it.

Thanks.

Re: Lots of files left after Podcasrt deletion

New postPosted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 8:19 am
by brandypuff
This isn't working again. I get the message that it can't purge because the application wasn't started correctly.
I went into the directory where the podcasts were stored and deleted everything manually except one file
named PT_temp_1.dat which was read only. Could this be the reason it won't purge? I stopped Podtrapper
before deleing the files.

Re: Lots of files left after Podcasrt deletion

New postPosted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 4:00 pm
by marwatk
I think it's a bug that I just fixed. Let me know how it goes when you have 3.0.6.

-Marcus

Re: Lots of files left after Podcasrt deletion

New postPosted: Mon Nov 15, 2010 9:37 am
by brandypuff
It allowed me to prune once after the upgrade but no longer. I tried again after i watched some podcasts
but got that message again about pruning not allowed or something.

Seems after each upgrade i can only prune one time.

Re: Lots of files left after Podcasrt deletion

New postPosted: Mon Nov 22, 2010 4:38 pm
by marwatk
:/ Ok, back to the drawing board.

-Marcus