[mythtv-users] autoexpire started deleting recent shows?

[Ross Boylan]

On Thu, 2012-10-25 at 08:12 +0100, Stephen Robertson wrote:
> My understanding is that shows you are delete are actually just marked
> as such and put to the front of the expire queue rather than being
> deleted immediately. 
> 
> They are then deleted from disk as required. 
> 
> Though I think that there may be some configurable options in there I
> think this is the intended default behaviour. 

That would explain what's going on.  But the reported free space on disk
goes up right after deleting recordings.  The report is from myth; could
it be cheating and adjusting the report for files that are present but
that can be deleted?

Of course, I could check with df; I'll have to try next time I delete
something.

Ross
> 
> Stephen 
> 
> On 25 Oct 2012 07:59, "Ross Boylan" <RossBoylan at stanfordalumni.org>
> wrote:
>         My disk got full and autoexpire has been deleting shows.  It
>         seemed to
>         be picking the oldest shows, but recently it seems to have
>         started
>         deleted recent shows.  I haven't updated myth recently,
>         although there
>         was a mysql update a few weeks ago (Oct 8).  However, the
>         problem seems
>         to have started well after that (Oct 18 by a quick look at the
>         logs).
>         
>         Any ideas how to diagnose or fix this?
>         
>         One entry:
>         Oct 17 23:36:32 corn mythbackend[887]: N Expire
>         autoexpire.cpp:640 (SendDeleteMessages) Expiring 4427 MB for
>         2041 at 2012-08-31T22:00:00 => Monk:"Mr. Monk Can't See a
>         Thing"
>         
>         That's odd for several reasons.  First, I'm sure I watched the
>         show and
>         pretty sure I manually deleted it.  Could deletions I request
>         be showing
>         up in the logs as autoexpiries?
>         
>         Second, that entry is immediately followed by the deletion of
>         another
>         episode.  I also saw that one, but not on the same day, and I
>         think I
>         deleted them at different times.
>         
>         Third, there are quite a few older shows around.
>         
>         Running in a Debian testing chroot with Marillat's packages:
>         MythTV Version : v0.25.2
>         MythTV Branch :
>         Network Protocol : 72
>         Library API : 0.25.20120506-1
>         QT Version : 4.8.2
>         
>         Thanks.
>         Ross
>         
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