[mythtv-users] AutoExpire: Oldest Show First, yet newly recorded shows still expire...

[Steven Adeff]

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Jim Morton <Jim at morton.hrcoxmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/25/2011 8:56 AM, Mike Perkins wrote:
>> On 25/07/11 12:50, Jim Morton wrote:
>>> On 7/23/2011 12:33 PM, Daniel Kristjansson wrote:
>>>> Why would you want to record a show into the Deleted group?
>>>>
>>> That is a handy feature if you want to tie up a tuner at a specific time
>>> but are not really interested in the recording. For example - your sat
>>> box phones home at 4am every morning. You schedule a high priority
>>> recording at 4am for 5 minutes with a priority on that sat box tuner and
>>> direct it into the deleted group. Now the scheduler will work your real
>>> recordings around that time.
>>>
>> There's an easy way round it, if recording into the 'Deleted' group is disabled.
>> Simply record into another group with 'keep 1 episode' set in the rule. It's
>> only 5 minutes, hardly going to fill up your hard disk, is it?
>>
> I hope I don't need that 347k. :-)
> Putting it directly into the deleted group keeps it out of the watch
> recordings list. It is really not a big deal, just a use I found for
> that capability. Maybe I'll get lucky and existing rules will be allowed.

perhaps a pop up warning when you try and save a recording schedule
with the Recording Group set to Deleted letting the user know what
they've done?

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Steve
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