[mythtv-users] Deleted Recordings Not Being Removed

[Bill Meek]

On 4/19/21 10:09 AM, Jay Foster wrote:
> On 4/18/2021 8:45 PM, Bill Meek wrote:
>> On 4/18/21 9:10 PM, Jay Foster wrote:
>>> On 3/20/21 1:04 PM, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
>>>> Hoi Jay,
>>>>
>>>> Saturday, March 20, 2021, 8:24:41 PM, you wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I am using MythTV 0.28.  I have long ago set up a Deleted Recordings
>>>>> Group and configured mythtv to remove recordings from there after 24
>>>>> hours.  This gives me an easy 1 day undo option.  This has worked fine
>>>>> for years.
>>>>> Looking at the backend status from mythweb, I see almost 600 GB of space
>>>>> used by deleted recordings.  That seems like a lot to me, since they
>>>>> should be removed within 24 hours of me deleting the recording.
>>>>> Using the Recorded Programs from mythweb and selecting the Deleted group
>>>>> shows 222 programs in that group.  This looks like something has gone
>>>>> wrong with mythtv removing deleted recordings.
>>>>> Any ideas how to fix this?
>>>>> Jay
>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> I doubt you set up this group, as it is a system group. Default
>>>> behavior is to keep deleted recordings until the space is needed, but
>>>> you can change it in the settings. Look there.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Tot mails,
>>>>     Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com
>>>>
>>>> "Zonder hoop kun je niet leven
>>>> Zonder leven is er geen hoop
>>>> Het eeuwige dilemma
>>>> Zeker als je hoop moet vernietigen om te kunnen overleven!"
>>>>
>>>> De lerende Mens
>>> Deleted recordings are just no longer being "deleted".  I double checked Setup-> Video -> General -> Time to retain deleted recordings (days):
>>> It is set to 1 (1 day), yet deleted recordings never get deleted.  My HD is nearly full and I have more than 1 TB of undeleted "deleted"
>>> recordings.  How do I make these actually get deleted?
>>> Jay
>> Are there any entries in the output of this: mythbackend --printexpire --quiet
>>
>> If so, then see if Allow Recordings to Auto-expire is set in some/all recording
>> rules, especially templates.
>>
> The output of 'mythbackend --printexpire --quiet' produced a list with over 300 recordings.
> I believe that I have always never enabled Allow Recordings to Auto-expire, since I never want any recording to auto expire, only after I
> manually delete it (after watching it).  I do not see what auto expire has to do with not deleting recordings that I selected *delete* for.

Agreed, at least when I delete a recording, it's gone.

The --printexpire output says that at least at some time, you were using
the feature. I have to disagree with:

  *I believe that I have always never enabled Allow Recordings to Auto-expire*

You can look at the recording rule for one or more of the programs
that printed with --printexpire to see if if Auto-expire is set. Or,
you can do this to see all affected rules:

  mysql --host=localhost --user=mythtv --password=FROMconfig.sys --execute "SELECT title FROM record WHERE autoexpire != 0;" mythconverg

Of course, the rule(s) that caused those recordings to use Auto-expire
may have been deleted long ago.

300+ recordings may/may not be enough to fill the 1TB drive ('cause I
don't know the quality/length of the recordings).

I'd try find-orphans.py too. https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Find_orphans.py

-- 
Bill