[mythtv-users] maxnewest | maxepisodes | autoexpire

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Wednesday 04 August 2004 08:37, Chris Strom wrote:
> If I remove the autoexpire flag from a recording, shouldn't that
> prevent it from being expired, regardless of the expiration
> mechanism?  When a recording schedule has maxnewest (`Record new and
> expire old?' in MythWeb) set to `1' and the maxepisodes limit is
> reached for that schedule, myth currently expires the oldest
> recording, regardless of the autoexpire flag.  I expected it to
> expire the oldest recording *with autoexpire set*.

Then you'd be expecting incorrectly :-)

> Is there a reason for not honoring autoexpire in this case?

Yes.  Autoexpire and maxnewest/maxepisodes are not related.  Autoexpire 
is a mechanism to indicate which shows *may* be deleted if available 
disk space falls below the threshold you set.  Maxnewest/maxepisodes is 
a mechanism to make sure that Myth will *never* save more than N 
episodes of a program, regardless of disk space.

Think of it like this:  I set autoexpire on 'unimportant' things that I 
record, where I don't care if they get deleted to free up disk space 
for other things I want to record.

I set 'maxnewest/maxepisodes' for things like 'The Simpsons' or 'ST:TNG' 
that are on several times a day, so my 'Watch Recordings' list doesn't 
get cluttered up with more episodes than I can realistically watch.  I 
like to have a couple of episodes always hanging around for when I'm in 
the mood, but I'm not really concerned with catching *every* re-run.

-JAC