<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:29 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jarpublic@gmail.com">jarpublic@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br></div>In the front end go to system status and there is section for auto-expire list. It shows what shows will auto-expire, the size of the file, and it list them in the order that they will expire. If there is anything on the list that you don't want to expire, just go to that recording and disable auto-expire for that recording. If you are referring to a single number for the amount of space that will be freed up by auto-expired recordings, that doesn't make very much sense. In my case all of my recordings would eventually be removed, since I have everything set to auto-expire by default. <br>
</blockquote><div><br>You are, of course, right. However, by immediately deleting shows that I've watched, I don't have to bother with any of that. I know with 100% certainty that nothing on my Mythbox will be getting removed and that I have X hours of video that I can record w/o having to go looking at "what's going to die next?". <br>
<br>The difference is mainly that I get a warm fuzzy from not having to concern myself with Myth removing things. I have a good hard number "X free space, Y hrs of video". I can go weeks w/o having to watch/delete any recordings, just by glancing at one number on Mythweb. But, when X starts to get low, I sit down and spend a couple of minutes weeding things out. (Happens pretty rarely, since I delete recordings after watching, thus keeping X high.) If I relied on autoexpire, X would always be low, and I'd (personally) be checking the 'to be expired' list daily. That's a lot more upkeep than I currently do.<br>
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