[mythtv-users] Disk Space / not-deleting-recordings

R. G. Newbury newbury at mandamus.org
Sat Apr 23 23:07:29 UTC 2016


On 04/22/2016 05:19 PM, Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
> On Friday, April 22, 2016 05:01:10 PM R. G. Newbury wrote:
>


>  > Myth does not actually delete things until it *has* to when it needs the
>
>  > space. Even if you go into System status and spend eons pushing 'delete'
>
>  > now, it does not.
>
> That's not true - Deleted recordings are deleted when they are older
> than the global setting for keeping deleted recordings, which can be 0
> and thus immediate, OR when space is required to maintain the global
> "space Myth won't use" setting for a disk.

I am running a 3 or 4 month old version of master. and autoexpire DOES 
NOT WORK,

For whatever reason. I can go into system -> status -> autoexpire and 
'delete now' and at most, it will delete 3 shows. and no more.

Geoff





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