[mythtv-users] Log entry when deleting a recording?

[Michael T. Dean]

  On 10/05/2010 11:03 AM, aaron wrote:
> This is possibly a silly question, but does Myth typically log
> anything to logs (backend or frontend) when a recording is manually
> deleted (not auto-expired)?
>
> I looked last night and couldn't find anything, but perhaps I wasn't
> looking for the right wording. Or perhaps I don't have the right
> verbosity flags (currently I have none set, so it's whatever the
> default is).

TTBOMK, no.  You could always set up a script for Recording deleted that 
logs some information (or whatever).

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythTV_System_Events

> The reason I ask is that I have seen a couple of times --- seemingly
> at random --- where the wrong recording gets deleted, and I wanted to
> check the logs to see exactly what I did end up deleting so I can go
> back and try to record it again.
>
> What happens is that I'll start watching a recording, notice it's a
> repeat or whatever, exit, hit Menu, go to Delete, and then the
> recording above it in the list is deleted rather than the recording I
> thought I was deleting. But it doesn't happen all the time, that's the
> weird thing.
>
> Anyway, any help would be appreciated.

Why not just delete it from within playback.  Hit D or Escape, then 
scroll to one of the Delete options, then (if you have the prompts 
enabled, confirm the delete).

I don't know why you've seen the wrong show deleted sometimes.  Perhaps 
when exiting playback, under some conditions, the selection may change 
as the view is reshuffled due to changes?

You may want to enable:

Auto Expire Instead of Delete Recording
Instead of deleting a recording, move recording to the 'Deleted' 
recgroup and turn on autoexpire.

(the "Recycle Bin" of MythTV).

Mike