[mythtv-users] deleted recordings

[Stephen Worthington]

On Mon, 27 Aug 2018 19:15:33 +0800, you wrote:

>Hi All
>
>Today I transcoded 2 movies to mpg and deleted them.
>Too late I realized my samsung tv, on uPnP, chokes on mpg container (and ts), but happily accepts mp4 (and does play those ‘unrecognised format’ mpg (and ts) from USB. But I digress 

>
>I looked at deleted which had todays news and a host of OLD recordings but not my two new deletions.
>
>Any body have some insight into how this all works (and I understand why, and superficially how)?
>
>James

If you have not changed the settings from the defaults, then anything
you delete gets put in a queue to be actually deleted in a short time
- I think it is about 15 minutes.  Your old recordings in the deleted
queue are probably as a result of an old bug (long since fixed), which
failed to actually delete things from the deleted queue.  If you
change to viewing the deleted recordings, add all of them to the
playlist and then delete the playlist, all those old recordings should
be actually deleted, and no more should end up in that state if you
are using a MythTV version after the fix was applied.  The actual
deletion from the deleted queue can take a while, as it is not done
all at once so as not to create too much disk activity that could
affect any recordings that are taking place.  But you should see the
files being removed from the deleted list over time until they are all
gone.