[mythtv-users] Deleting previously recorded table entries

John Pilkington J.Pilk at tesco.net
Fri Jan 30 12:25:03 UTC 2015


On 30/01/15 11:58, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 01/29/2015 07:33 PM, Bill Meek wrote:
>> On 01/29/2015 06:25 PM, Mike's JdJ wrote:
>>>
>>> Is there a clean way (maintaining database integrity) of deleting
>>> from Previously Recorded a series that I have recorded?
>>>
>>> I go to Manage Recordings, Previously Recorded, and I have to step
>>> through the huge list to get to, let's say, 'The Colbert Report'. Then I
>>> type 'D', select OK, and press enter...
>>
>> Go to the Previously Recorded screen again and press return for
>> an episode you'd like to remove completely. You'll see a menu
>> that has what you want to do (for the Steppes Theme at least.)
>
> And remember that you can sort the huge list of recordings in Previously
> Recorded.  It starts out showing the list by "reverse time" (i.e.
> most-recently-recorded show first).  If you hit 1, it switches to
> sorting by title, ascending.  Hit 1 again to sort by title, descending.
> Hit 2 to go back to time sort (and again to reverse it).  Or use MENU
> and choose "Sort Options" to specify exactly which one you want.

That may still need a lot of scrolling.  Ctrl/s brings up a word search 
in the displayed list.
>
> And, I think you can now (0.27+) get to the list of previously recorded
> episodes for a particular show (that's still/again in your listings) by
> using something like Manage Recordings|Schedule Recordings|Search
> Words|Title Search (or whichever--several options for the last 2), then
> once you find the show, using MENU|Previously Recorded.
>
> Mike




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