[mythtv-users] Recordings not deleting...

[Michael T. Dean]

On 05/24/06 16:55, yan seiner wrote:

>I've had Myth installed and happily working until the last week or so...
>
>Recordings have stopped getting deleted...
>
>I'm running 0.18 on the backend.
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>
And the frontend, too, I hope...

>Is there any way I can fix this via the web or CLI?  Is there some 
>global setting that I need to set?  I don't have X access to the backend 
>at the moment....
>  
>

Start out by using the tool of your choice to review the backend logs to 
see why the recordings aren't being deleted.

>I thought recordings got automagially deleted when the system started 
>running out of room.... Apparently it ain't so.
>

It's so--unless you tell it your recordings cannot be autoexpired.  And, 
on 0.18, you can completely disable autoexpire.  There are a few other 
settings you can use to "break" autoexpire, but we'll go down that road 
after getting more info from the logs.

Mike