[mythtv-users] Autoexpire issues

[Chris Pinkham]

A fix is in CVS now that should fix the problem you saw.  I modified the
AutoExpire code to only delete one recording every time it wakes up.  So,
if you have the autoexpire timer set to 10 minutes it should delete at
most one recording every 10 minutes.  I'm not sure why the dispatchnow()
function was working for some and not others but I'm not a QT
expert (yet). :)  Current cvs should be ok now.

> I wish I would have read this thread before I enabled auto expire... I
> use RTJPEG at 640x480 so it takes a while to delete a file.  Tonight I
> ran low on disk space and autoexpire nuked every single show on the hard
> drive except the one it was recording.  
> 
> I'm not bitchin' mind you, but you should hear my wife ;)
> 
> Anyway, is this fixed in CVS?  I looked at it and I didn't see any
> obvious differences in the autoexpire.cpp code, but maybe it was a
> dispatchNow() bug?
> 
> The nice thing is that I just added a tiny patch to delete the
> oldrecorded entry for a program being auto-expired, so at least I'll
> catch them the next time around.  Now I think I'll add a nice long sleep
> to autoexpire.cpp as well but it will be a while before it's needed ;)
> 
> Thanks,
> Aran

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Chris