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

[Ian Evans]

On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 9:40 AM, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>
wrote:

> 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).
>

Hmm, my Change Group View doesn't have an option to show deleted:

Show Titles
Show Categories
Show Recording Groups
Show Watch List
Show Searches
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