[mythtv-users] Question about Auto-expire

[Robert Dege]

Mike,

Is there a notification icon that lets you know if a recorded show has been
preserved or not?  I checked both mythweb, and mythfrontend, but didn't see
anything.

Also, is it common for the max number of recorded shows to differ between
mythweb and mythfrontend?  Yesterday, I changed the max recordings from 20
to 17.  Mythweb shows the new max shows, but when I went into the frontend,
it still showed 20.  Plus, the backend failed to remove the oldest, so now
I have 18 recordings on my box.

-Rob

On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 8:23 PM, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>wrote:

> On 09/16/2012 11:14 PM, Nick Rout wrote:
>
>  On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Robert Dege wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> One more follow up question.  Now that I have Record new and expire old
>>> enabled and working, is there any way to exempt certain shows from
>>> auto-expiring?
>>>
>>> -Rob
>>>
>> I think you can set an episode to not expire in mythweb and probably
>> in the watch recordings screen (at a guess the menu key...)
>>
>>
> You need to "preserve" the episode (available in Watch Recordings under
> the menu in Storage Options).  The "Do not allow this episode to
> autoexpire" has no effect on the rule in question.  Note that in the
> mythfrontend schedule editor the option is called, "Delete oldest if this
> would exceed the max episodes," and doesn't say anything about expiring.
>
> Unfortunately, the MythWeb wording, "Record new and expire old" is
> misleading since it's not, actually, expired, because auto-expire happens
> only when file systems are full).
>
> We should change this to "Record new and delete old"...
>
> Mike
>
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