How do I remove the [Unwatched] virtual directory

[OS1]

Hi,

I’ve uninstalled the flatview extension but it’s left the “[Unwatched]” directory behind. Webif reports that there’s 340Gb in it! My question is how do I remove this directory without removing everything in it?

Thanks,

 

[Black Hole]

I use flatview, but I'm not familiar with [Unwatched] - it may be an option I don't use.

Regardless, flatview does not alter the file system - it creates a separate index to the existing files in the file system. Deleting a pointer within a flatview index only deletes the corresponding file in the real folder while flatview is running to do it. Without flatview installed, deleting the index will only delete the index - not the corresponding files.

 

[OS1]

flatview created it when it was installed. Telnet’d in and it contained a bunch of symlinks and file copies. So I deleted them all and removed the “ [Unwatched]” directory and there seems to be no ill effects and quite a lot of disk space released,

 

[Black Hole]

quite a lot of disk space released

Not really, it only seems that way because the flatview links were confusing the Humax space reporting code.

and file copies

Hmm... not sure there should have been actual copies of files! Maybe there was space being used after all.