[mythtv-users] mythtv dropping mysql???

[Thomas Mashos]

On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Rich Freeman
<r-mythtv at thefreemanclan.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Eric Sharkey <eric at lisaneric.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Rich Freeman
>> <r-mythtv at thefreemanclan.net> wrote:
>>> How about this one, run hourly from crontab:
>>> UPDATE \`recorded\`  SET \`autoexpire\` = '1',
>>>  \`preserve\` = '0' WHERE \`seriesid\` IN ('<bunch of ids>') ;
>>>
>>> Do you REALLY want to create a UI for that?
>>
>> What are you trying to do with that one?  You're afraid users will be
>> enabling auto-expire on shows and trying to set them back to what you
>> think they should be hourly?  But you're not afraid they'll just
>> explicitly delete your stuff?
>>
>
> Read it more closely.  The problem is the opposite one. I'm concerned
> that users will DISABLE auto-expire on shows and NOT delete them when
> I want the system to avoid having 300 episodes of spongebob or
> whatever clogging up my disk.  They can delete their shows if they
> want to.  :)
>
> It is a completely oddball thing, and hardly something I'd want in the
> UI.  I don't expect anybody to think it is a good idea.  It is just
> one of those things that having access to the database makes trivial.
>
> --
> Rich
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Essentially you are just disabling a setting they current have
permission to change. Why wouldn't this be a good UI option?

-- 
Thanks,

Thomas Mashos