[mythtv-users] Deleted Recordings Not Being Removed

[Jay Foster]

On 4/20/21 7:19 AM, Bill Meek wrote:
> 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

This SQL query produced one row (result).


> 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
>
find_orphans did not find any orphaned recordings.

Jay