[mythtv-users] How to bulk mark old recordings as watched?

John Veness John.Veness.mythtv at pelago.org.uk
Wed Feb 1 09:56:26 UTC 2012


On 01/02/2012 09:47, Christopher Kerr wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> For a long time, my recordings weren't being marked watched, but it's
> been behaving itself since the new year.
>
> However, because the autoexpirer is set to expire Watched before
> Unwatched, and most of my old recordings incorrectly appear Unwatched,
> relatively recent recordings are being expired in preference to very
> old ones.
>
> What I need is a way to mark all but the most recent, say, 100
> recordings as watched, so that expiration may resume sensibly.
>
> I can imagine how I'd do it with SQL, but I thought I'd ask here first
> in case I've missed something obvious.
>
> - Chris

I'm not in front of my frontend at the moment, but this is probably 
something you can do with watchlists, isn't it? E.g. add all the old 
recordings to a watchlist, then mark the watchlist as watched?

Cheers,

John

-- 
John Veness, MythTV user, UK, DVB-T


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