<div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 9, 2008 9:50 AM, David Segall <<a href="mailto:david@segall.net">david@segall.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div class="Wj3C7c"><br><br>Justin wrote:<br>> --------------------------------------------------<br>> From: "Kevin Kuphal" <<a href="mailto:kuphal@dls.net">kuphal@dls.net</a>><br>> Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 9:02 AM
<br>> To: "Discussion about mythtv" <<a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a>><br>> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Preserve This Episode<br>><br>>> On Jan 8, 2008 8:54 AM, Brad DerManouelian <
<a href="mailto:myth@dermanouelian.com">myth@dermanouelian.com</a>> wrote:<br>>><br>>>> On Jan 8, 2008, at 4:12 AM, Bruce Nordstrand wrote:<br>>>><br>>>>> What exactly does "Preserve This Episode" mean in the latest trunk
<br>>>>> builds?<br>>>> I searched the archives and found that Preserve This Episode will not<br>>>> auto-expire the program if you have a Max Number of Recordings rule<br>>>> that says to auto-expire when the limit is reached in order to record
<br>>>> a new episode. For example, let's say you have a rule to record a<br>>>> maximum of 5 episodes of iCarly and set it to auto-expire the oldest<br>>>> one when a new one comes on to record, but you REALLY love the one
<br>>>> where Spencer makes a butter sculpture and want to watch it over and<br>>>> over again. You can Preserve This Episode and it won't auto-expire due<br>>>> to the max recordings rule.<br>
>><br>>> This is correct. :) I know because I added it a long time ago (to me) as<br>>> a<br>>> feature I loved from my ReplayTV days. I have indeed used it to save the<br>>> Friends episode where Joey speaks French (Oh' De Foof).
<br>>><br>>> French it up!<br>>><br>>> Kevin<br>>><br>><br>> Just wondering, how is this feature different from just disabling auto<br>> expire on one recording?<br></div></div>I believe it is equivalent to disabling auto expire on one recording
<br>_and_ adding one to the number of recordings to keep. It provides the<br>convenience of a one step solution to a problem at the expense of adding<br>another option the user has to understand.<br>
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<div> </div>My memory is fuzzy, but I *think* that the max recordings logic is separate from the auto-expiration logic.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">Auto-expire: Delete when disk space reaches a threshold</div>
<div class="gmail_quote">Max recordings: Delete when number of recordings reaches a threshold</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">So you can disable auto-expiration on a recording but it can still be removed by the max recordings logic when the next recording starts. The Preserve flag does for a max recording limited rule what the auto-expire flag does for the auto-expiration rules.
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<div class="gmail_quote">Does that make sense?</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">Kevin</div>