[mythtv-users] vanishing recordings...

Nick Morrott knowledgejunkie at gmail.com
Sat Jun 9 16:33:32 UTC 2007


On 09/06/07, OneBob <onebob at gmail.com> wrote:
> New boy to the list so please forgive me, I'm fluent in Linux but just never
> got round to building a mythtv server until now.....
> Been trialing for a week, done the obvious like unsetting auto expire, had
> something set up for thursday which recorded OK, even started watching it on
> friday, today saturday it's gone, completely vanished
> nothing in the logs, no trace of it?

If you start the backend with logging using the 'file' debug level in
addition to the defaults, you can see if the auto-expirer is
responsible, even if it is turned off for future recordings. Do you
have any recordings left? How much free space do you have on the drive
you're recording to?

-- 
Nick

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