[mythtv-users] Add to playlist->Delete not deleting?

Ian Evans dheianevans at gmail.com
Thu Sep 10 13:33:03 UTC 2015


On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hoi Ian,
>
> Thursday, September 10, 2015, 2:38:04 PM, you wrote:
>
> > I deleted about 40+ episodes of a series yesterday at 4pm. I noticed this
> > morning, about 17 hours later, that I hadn't recovered the drive space. I
> > know there's slow delete, but that's pretty slow. :-)
>
> > I was browsing the recording directories from my winbox and as the icons
> > were drawing, I could see all the episodes still there. I also saw mpeg
> > files for another series I had group deleted earlier in the year.
>
> > Both of these shows were deleted via Add to Playlist->Delete.
>
> > My regular, one episode at a time deletes work fine. Is there a chance
> the
> > Playlist/Delete mechanism is broken?
>
> Depending on your settings, they won't get really deleted until the
> space is needed for a new recording!
>

I did not know that. Sorta throws off your space calculations e.g. you want
to tape an episode marathon. Watch Recordings indicates you have 175GB
available, but it could really be 350GB for example?
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