[mythtv-users] Undelete a show marked for deletion by mistake?

[Peter Bennett]

On 12/17/22 05:18, John Pilkington wrote:
> On 17/12/2022 09:09, John Pilkington wrote:
>> On 17/12/2022 04:22, A. F. Cano wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I've deleted a show by mistake.  I know mythtv doesn't delete tha 
>>> actual
>>> file immediately, so I went to the directory and copied it right away,
>>> but now I have a file that I can only play outside of mythtv, with
>>> smplayer for instance.
>>>
>>> I've gone to the previously recorded section and found it but there is
>>> no option in the menu to undelete it. Somehow I found an option
>>> somewhere to allow re-recording it, but that won't help if it's never
>>> re-broadcast.
>>>
>>> Is there a way to tell mythtv (v31 from deb-multimedia on debiqn
>>> stable) to undelete a show.  I probably won't get a reply before mythtv
>>> deletes this partucular show, so is there some way to re-input the file
>>> into mythtv later?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Augustine
>
>
To avoid the problem in future,

Frontend -> Setup -> Video -> General -> General (Auto-Expire)

In there, you can set "Time to Retain Deleted Recordings (days). Set 
that to more than 0, and the deleted recording will remain in the 
Deleted group on your system for that number of days. Within that time 
you can undelete it as described before. For example, if you set it as 
7, you can recover a deleted recording for 7 days. If it is set as 0, 
you can only recover them for about 20 minutes after you delete them in 
mythfrontend.

Peter