[mythtv-users] Undelete - new feature idea

[Isaac Richards]

On Tuesday 20 February 2007 9:14:52 pm David Whyte wrote:
> On 2/21/07, Steve Hodge <stevehodge at gmail.com> wrote:
> > It seems like all the pieces are already in place - it should be a simple
> > patch to get this working (says the man who has never got round to
> > looking at the code). I think it would be a useful feature.
>
> I would agree.  The tricky part that needs to be considered is
> reporting the amount of disk space left.  Regardless of how many big
> disks I put in my BE, they always seem to fill up almost immediately
> and I use the disk space notification at the bottom of the mythweb
> 'recorded programs' page to note whether I need to go and delete some
> recordings or not.
>
> Any modification needs to ensure that those recordings that are in the
> 'deleted' group do not count towards the amount of space that is
> reported to be used.  This is possibly just a simple query change
> though, I am sure.
>
> I looks forward to this coming soon though. ;)

I see no reason to have a separate 'undelete' feature, since, really, it's the 
exact same functionally as toggling the auto-expire flag on a recording.

Isaac