[mythtv] Storage Groups functionality

[Carl Reynolds]

Michael T. Dean wrote:

>Carl Reynolds wrote:
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>>f-myth-users at media.mit.edu wrote:
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>>>....  Obviously, this entire scheme depends on -nothing- in Myth itself ever deleting something from "oldrecorded"; if such a thing can happen, I'll have
>>>to make an entirely separate table so Myth keeps its mitts off it....
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>>If you look at mythtv/programs/mythfilldatabase/filldata.cpp:2805 of the
>>latest svn (8893) you'll see that mythfilldatabase deletes records older
>>than 320 days from oldrecorded.
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>oldprogram != oldrecorded  (just do a desc on each to see that they're 
>_very_ differrent tables)
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>The only records mythfilldatabase ever deletes from oldrecorded are 
>those that are older than the user-specified setting "CleanOldRecorded" 
>and that were not recorded.  (SVN stores programs that match recording 
>rules in oldrecorded even if they're not recorded so you can check why 
>they weren't recorded--within CleanOldRecorded days, at least.  In 
>0.18.1 and below, mfdb should not ever delete records from oldrecorded.)
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>Deleting records that show what you recorded from oldrecorded would be A 
>Bad Thing considering they take very little space and provide 
>information (so that in you don't start re-recording season 1 when 
>season 3 starts--which it would do if the records were removed every 320 
>days (~1 year)).
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>Mike
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You're right Mike,

I was in a hurry when I read the original question and remembered having 
looked at that section of filldata.cpp a couple of days ago. I didn't 
check the table name carefully enough. Sorry. :-[



Carl.