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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">hi all,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I've had someone accidentally delete some recordings when they finished watching them ( but before I had a chance to watch them ). so I'm wondering, what ideas do people have to disable delete functionality in mythtv. I don't think I actually need to be able to delete recordings as such since expiration will eventually get rid of things anyway. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">the only option I've thought of so far is to write a wrapper for 'rm' so that it won't do anything if run as the 'mythtv' user, but that would probably still delete the database entries and just leave the recording file lying around ( which I’d then have to find to watch it and manually delete ). and it would mess up other things like expiration and transcoding. please note that I'm running knoppmyth so I'm not able to amend and recompile the source ( otherwise I would just comment out the relevant lines in the code ).</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">thanx.</FONT>
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