[mythtv-users] How do I enable Deleted Recordings group?

[Michael T. Dean]

On 04/19/2012 12:43 PM, Raymond Wagner wrote:
> On 4/19/2012 12:38, Thomas Boehm wrote:
>> Trey Thompson wrote:
>>> I found it.
>>> In the FrontEnd
>>> Setup, Video, General, 2nd page.
>>> The "Time to retain deleted recordings (day):" setting.  This 
>>> appears to
>>> default to 0.  I changed it to 90.  Deleted a recording, and now 
>>> there's
>>> a "Deleted" group with the recording in it.
>> That is not logical to me as I just wrote in another thread. Why is that
>> setting in mythfrontend? It should be in mythtv-setup.
>
> Consider it less backend setup, and more settings that require the 
> backend be closed for file access, or otherwise restarted for the 
> changes to take effect.
>
>> This setting seems to have changed since the upgrade. I'm pretty sure
>> that my setting was "delete permanently if space is needed" or similar.
>> Now it was set to 0 which means "delete within the next 5 to 20
>> minutes". Maybe it is a new setting and the old one is gone. IIRC it was
>> called differently in 0.24...
>
> In 0.25, all deletes are now postponed in this manner.  It gets marked 
> for deletion, and the auto-expirer unlinks it as it sees fit.  By 
> default, that runs once every 15 minutes, but can be faster if 
> recording heavily and low on free space.

And whatever you had set before for auto-expire instead of delete was 
"ported" to the new setting:

Time to retain deleted recordings (days)
Determines the maximum number of days before undeleting a recording will 
become impossible. A value of zero means the recording will be 
permanently deleted between 5 and 20 minutes later. A value of minus one 
means recordings will be retained until space is required. A recording 
will always be removed before this time if the space is needed for a new 
recording.


In other words, no capabilities were lost--things were just simplified.

Mike