<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 15 April 2016 at 12:55, Gerald Brandt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gbr@majentis.com" target="_blank">gbr@majentis.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span><br>
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On 2016-04-14 09:49 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:<br>
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On 04/14/2016 10:40 PM, Gerald Brandt wrote:<br>
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On 2016-04-14 08:55 PM, Phill Edwards wrote:<br>
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Gerald Brandt wrote:<br>
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I added a new storage group for my recordings (0.27 fixes), and it all works fine. However, it is slowly filling up with undeleted watched recordings. Is there a setting for deleting watched recordings faster?<br>
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They should start expiring/deleting when the amount of space left reaches your minimum free space setting.<br>
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So MythTV will fill up hard drives with unnecessary and unwanted data.<br>
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Unused storage, like unused RAM, is wasted. Deleting something that you could, eventually, decide you want to watch again just because you watched it once is just plain rude--and wrong--and wasteful if the storage space isn't being used to store anything else. After all, what if I watched a show without my wife and MythTV just deleted it afterwards and she missed it?<br>
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Anyway around this?<br>
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Delete what you want deleted. Once you delete a show, it will be removed from the disk after the time period you told MythTV to leave them:<br>
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Time to retain deleted recordings (days)<br>
Determines the maximum number of days before undeleting a recording will become impossible. A value of zero means the recording will be permanently deleted between 5 and 20 minutes later. A value of minus one means recordings will be retained until space is required. A recording will always be removed before this time if the space is needed for a new recording.<br>
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in the frontend settings editor under General settings.<br>
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That said, I'm pretty sure this is what you attempted to ask the first time around, but since you said, "filling up with undeleted watched recordings," people assumed you meant that the recordings were marked as watched, but you had never deleted them.<br>
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I'd rather have watched recordings auto delete after a period of time (not based on disk usage), much like manually deleted recordings. Filling my hard drive with junk is a waste.<span><font color="#888888"><br>
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Gerald</font></span><div><div><br></div></div></blockquote><div> </div><div>There are auto expire settings for that also, I'd assume you would like to set your settings to </div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;background-color:rgb(249,249,249)">Watched before unwatched = enabled</span><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;background-color:rgb(249,249,249)">Time to retain deleted recordings (days) = 0</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;background-color:rgb(249,249,249)"><br></span></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Configuring_Frontend#General_.28Auto-Expire.29" target="_blank">https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Configuring_Frontend#General_.28Auto-Expire.29</a></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Setup_Storage_Directories#Storage_Usage" target="_blank">https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Setup_Storage_Directories#Storage_Usage</a></div><div><br></div><div>you may also need to check you dont have the "<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;background-color:rgb(249,249,249)">Delete Files Slowly" settings enabled</span></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Setup_General#Miscellaneous_Settings">https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Setup_General#Miscellaneous_Settings</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,<br></div><div><br></div><div>Anthony </div></div><br></div></div>