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

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Thu Sep 10 13:40:41 UTC 2015


On 09/10/2015 09:33 AM, Ian Evans wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Hika van den Hoven 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
>>> thePlaylist/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?

Backend status page, which is available in MythWeb, too, will show you 
how much space you have taken up by Deleted recordings.

Or, if you want to see the space with tools outside of MythTV, you can 
go into Watch Recordings and MENU|Change Group View|Deleted, then select 
shows to delete and they'll be removed from disk (like deleting from the 
trash bin in Windows).

Mike



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