<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 24 April 2016 at 09:05, R. G. Newbury <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:newbury@mandamus.org" target="_blank">newbury@mandamus.org</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">On 04/22/2016 05:14 PM, Thomas Mashos wrote:<br>
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I can't look right now, but I'm pretty confident there is a "delete<br>
expired items immediately" setting in the backend.<br>
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At the moment I'm running 3-4month old version of master and 'delete immediately' DOES NOT WORK.<br>
<br>If *I* decide that I want to delete a program, the damn program should not fight me. You may be right, that is is possible that I might change my mind. Too freakin bad for me.<br>
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And this "feature" makes it nearly impossible to use the box for more normal things. You wil have to decide, a priori, how much space you will need, and tell myth to leave that much alone. THIS IS BACKWARDS. We are talking about recording TV!. If I decide to archive other stuff, and use up the space, that other stuff is likely more important that recording episodes of [whatever].<br>
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</blockquote></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div>Ok, answer this question then: what is your "time to keep deleted recordings" setting set to?<div><br></div><div>This has been mentioned several times, but you haven't yet said whether you have set this or changed it from the default.</div><div><br></div><div>Bottom line, this setting controls what MythTV does around recording deletions, and if you have set it contrary to what you want MythTV to do, then it won't do what you want, it will do what you told it to do.</div><div><br></div><div>So forget this philosophical debate about whether free space is wasted space etc., and help us to help you out. Ranting isn't going to help. Post your setting for this option before we go any further.</div></div></div>