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

[Michael T. Dean]

On 04/23/2016 07:37 PM, Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
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> On Saturday, April 23, 2016 07:07:29 PM R. G. Newbury wrote:
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> > For whatever reason. I can go into system -> status -> autoexpire and
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> > 'delete now' and at most, it will delete 3 shows. and no more.
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> Then you have a bug. I'm not running 0.28 so I can't speak to it, but 
> 0.20, 0.21, and now 0.27 have always deleted what I've asked to be 
> deleted according to the settings I've used. Perhaps filing a bug 
> report would be more useful to all than complaining about the devs 
> getting it wrong for your particular use-case.
>

Or, quite possibly, you have a broken system where something other than 
MythTV has deleted a recording file (or, likely, multiple) from your 
disk and so when you tell MythTV to delete the recording, it won't 
because there's no file--so it refuses to do the deletion without your 
explicit override of the safety measure that prevents it from leaving 
behind multi-gigabyte recording files when you delete a recording but 
the file system on which the recording file exists isn't 
mounted/available.  If that's the case and you keep trying to delete 
shows from the Autoexpire tab, you'll probably eventually find another 
non-orphaned recording that it will delete (just like the first 3 it 
did).  The easiest way to clean up orphaned recordings is to use the 
find_orphans.py script ( https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Find_orphans.py ).  
Alternatively, delete them (and say you really want to) in Watch 
Recordings ( 
https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Frequently_Asked_Questions#How_do_I_remove_recordings_that_no_longer_exist_on_disk.3F 
).

Remember, also, that if you delete a not-already deleted (not in the 
Deleted recording group) recording from the Autoexpire tab of the System 
Status, it's simply moved to the Deleted recording group.  To remove 
recording files from disk, you must delete the recordings from the 
Deleted recording group.  Or, really (as mentioned before), you just 
need to tell MythTV when to do it for you, and it will automatically 
remove any recordings and recording files (assuming both are really 
available) that are in the Deleted recording group

FWIW, there's no conspiracy and you have full control over the 
recordings on the box.  The only thing that would prevent control over 
the recordings on the box (i.e. their being deleted when you delete 
them) is lack of knowledge of how to use the functionality/settings that 
gives you that control.  MythTV doesn't impose any kind of nanny state 
on anyone--and not just because no one is forced to use MythTV, but 
because MythTV.  The only change to deletion from how it always was in 
the past was to enable the Deleted recording group on every machine, 
such that it can be used as a Delete queue--so that people could 
actually delete recordings *now* even if they were currently in use (by 
a transcoding or commercial flagging or user job or whatever), rather 
than having to stop whatever process is running (and/or wait for that 
process to stop or be stopped) before being allowed (really, before it 
being even possible--for you or MythTV or the system itself) to delete 
the recording.

Mike