[mythtv-users] mythtv not deleting recordings

Tim Draper veehexx at gmail.com
Mon Jan 23 16:19:49 UTC 2012


On 23 January 2012 14:47, Nick Morrott <knowledgejunkie at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 23 January 2012 14:40, Tim Draper <veehexx at gmail.com> wrote:
>> as per the subject really; when deleting a recording via mythweb or an
>> FE, the actual .mpg files are not being deleted.
>
> Have you ruled out whether they are sitting in the "Deleted" group to
> be expired later/when necessary? You can view the group in both
> mythweb and mythfrontend by changing the displayed group filter.
>

ohh yeah - they're all sat in there!
it's not causing any issues, so i'll just leave them there to
auto-expire when the space is needed. the drive their on is for mythtv
use.


On 23 January 2012 14:51, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
> On 1/23/2012 09:40, Tim Draper wrote:
>> mythweb shows 49 recordings. i actually have 149 .mpg files in my
>> 'recordings' SG (excluding the *.png files)
>> mythweb does correctly remove them from the 'Recorded Programs' list.
>
> Is it possible you have a hundred Live TV sessions that have not yet
> expired?  Default is for those to be deleted after 24 hours, but that
> time limit can be changed.
>
> Is it possible you have MythTV configured to "delete" recordings to the
> Deleted group, at which point they wait around until you run out of disk
> space and MythTV needs to start expiring content?
>
> SELECT COUNT(1) FROM recorded;


i've fallen for that one before; liveTV buffer files, but no, it's not
that this time.

i'll take a look at that move-to-deleted-recordings option. whilst the
current method of working is not causing issues, i dont have any use
for keeping them, so i might aswell remove them if i can - i can keep
an eye on useful disk space then..

is this a new feature in the last year? i dont recall noticing this
feature when i started with mythtv, and i tend to setup mythtv the
same when i've reinstalled in the past.


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