[mythtv-users] Deleting old recordings when storage fills up

Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com
Mon May 9 18:52:50 UTC 2005


Nick,
   Thanks. So I need to do this for every recording? The default is to
always save unless I specifically set it up to allow deletion?

   No problem. Most of the stuff we do is weekly and it's not too hard
to set that up.

Cheers,
Mark

On 5/9/05, Nick <knowledgejunkie at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/9/05, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >    I imagine that there is a setting for this somewhere. My wife
> > wanted a movie recorded that didn't make it due to the allocated disk
> > space being used up. I thought that Myth was just going to delete
> > older recordings by default to make room but it didn't.
> >
> >    Where would I configure this sort of operation? I looked in
> > mythtv-setup but I didn't see it. Is it there or elsewhere?
> 
> When you setup recordings, you can specify whether they can be 'for
> the chop' in the future if disk space is running out, usually the
> earliest recording is deleted first.
> 
> Nick
>


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