[mythtv-users] deleted recordings

[James Linder]

> On 28 Aug 2018, at 8:35 am, mythtv-users-request at mythtv.org wrote:
> 
>> 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.

Can you hold mt hand please.

m->Change Group Filter->Delete [41 Items]
m->Add to Playlist
(repeat for each file)
m->Playlist Options->Delete

All Gone
But One by One they come back until the deleted list is fully restored

So delete the items by hand
bing they’re back (as expected)

How do I delete the deleted group items?
fixes/29 [v29.1-15-g280138b]

Thanks
James