[mythtv-users] Whatever happened to "Keep until I delete"?

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Matt,

Monday, April 13, 2015, 1:39:42 AM, you wrote:

> I just went into Myth and noticed that I only have the two most recent
> episodes of Better Call Saul, even though I've specified max number of
> recordings to be zero and auto-delete is unchecked in MythWeb. I assume
> that these options are superceded by the default recording/storage rule
> that deletes recordings after they've been watched.

> Back in the olden tymes of Myth, I remember a "Keep until I delete" option
> on recordings but I can't find any such thing in the Front End UI or
> MythWeb. I assume it no longer exists? Is there an alternative way to tell
> Myth to keep all recordings of a show until I manually delete? I haven't
> messed with recording profiles; could something be in there, or am I just
> missing something obvious? Thanks in advance.


As far as I know and as my experience goes, nothing gets automatically
deleted unless the space is needed or you have set max recordings.
If the space is needed it first looks for livetv to delete and then
for recordings that are set to auto expire and are watched, with the
lowest priority first. If none of those are found it looks for
unwatched recordings set to auto expire, again starting with the
lowest priority. 
Priority is calculated on the basis of several things, like recording
priority and age.
As far as I know recordings not set to auto expire should never be
touched. In Mythweb you can easily see if a recording is set to
auto expire.
I don't know what happens when there is no space and nothing to
delete. I guess the recording fails. But I haven't been there.
Last year I have had an incident, where minimum free space somehow got
raised to extreme height (multiple Tb) and a lot get deleted I hadn't
watched jet. But none not set to auto expire. I guess it was a bit
flipping by accident.
So you should check if they are set to auto expire and maybe change
that in the recording profile and to what value minimum free space is
set. You can see the latter in the backend log.

Tot mails,
  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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