[mythtv-users] mass deleting shows?

[Pamela J. Ashworth (webmail)]

-----Original Message-----
>From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra at baylink.com>
>Sent: Oct 24, 2007 2:03 PM
>To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] mass deleting shows?
>
>On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 01:24:41PM -0400, Pam Ashworth wrote:
>> >> Add the shows you want to delete to a playlist and delete all of them  
>> >> with 1 delete command. The hint here is that you can add all of the  
>> >> programs in a group to a playlist by selecting the group on the left  
>> >> of the Watch Recordings screen (hit M(enu) then Add This Group to  
>> >> Playlist). Then M(enu) again and choose Playlist Options. Delete on  
>> >> the bottom will delete everything in your playlist.
>> 
>> thanks for that. I used it yesterday to move 125 episodes of Scrubs to
>> a different Recording Group :-)
>
>Prison Break airs on Mondays?
>
>er, sorry:
>
>You have 125 eps of Scrubs already?

er... 139. but the last half of season 6 is in the Backup Group (having lost it last March)

>
>> >On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 01:57:20PM -0400, Ryan Steffes wrote: > For
>> >some reason, I occasionally get crashes on the backend when I try >
>> >to rapidly delete one show after another.
>>
>> there's a button in one of the setup screens that says Delete Slowly.
>> I'm not sure if it means what I think, but I checked it. And they
>> really do delete slowly... (it seems to cause less glitches in
>> playback while deleting, this way)
>
>Delete Slowly has to do with each individual GB+ file, not in between
>files; it's for stupid filesystems.

did you *install* a stupid filesystem?
it seems to help, as I'm frequently deleting while offloading to DVD via analog playback, and the discs (which I rarely watch again) get these glitches when the system has to stop (dead stop) to delete a file or 12.

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Pam from Boston
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