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

[A. F. Cano]

On Sat, Dec 17, 2022 at 09:17:30AM -0500, Peter Bennett wrote:
> 
> ...
> To avoid the problem in future,
> 
> Frontend -> Setup -> Video -> General -> General (Auto-Expire)

In v31, it's a little more complicated to get to this option:

Frontend -> Advanced -> Setup -> TV settings -> General -> Auto-expire
and then

> 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

Done.  Set to 1.  That should be enough to catch mistakes.

> 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.

Indeed.  Thanks.

> Peter

Augustine