[mythtv-users] "Keep at most N episodes" fails to delete

[David Engel]

On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 01:58:31PM -0400, Dan Wilga wrote:
> On 6/27/12 9:54 PM, David Engel wrote:
> >On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 04:25:16PM -0400, Dan Wilga wrote:
> >>Since switching to 0.25 (-fixes), I've noticed that a recording rule
> >>I had set up in 0.24 to only keep the last three episodes of the
> >>nightly news isn't automatically deleting the older episodes
> >>anymore. I've checked and re-checked the recording rule and can't
> >>figure out the reason.
> >>
> >>It's set for "Keep at most 3 episodes" and "Delete oldest if this
> >>would exceed the max episodes", yet I currently have 9 episodes and
> >>have to keep manually deleting them.
> >>
> >>Is anyone successfully using this feature in 0.25?
> >Do any of the oldrecorded entries for your recordings not have the
> >duplicate flag set?  There is a debatable feature where damaged
> >recordings or recordings that you explicitly set to allow re-recording
> >don't count against the episode limit.  You can check the duplicate
> >status by pressing ENTER in the Previously Recorded screen and seeing
> >if you get the "Never record this episode" option.
> >
> I checked using a database query, and all of the recordings that
> occurred do have duplicate=1:
> 
>   SELECT * FROM oldrecorded WHERE title LIKE '%NewsHour%' AND
> future=0 AND chanid=5571
> 
> Where is the autoexpire query in the code? If there is some other
> flag that is causing the issue, I might be able to figure it out,
> once I know the full query.

It's in AutoExpire::ExpireEpisodesOverMax().

David
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