[mythtv-users] livetv files showing under recordings

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On 6 June 2011 21:27, Robert McNamara <robert.mcnamara at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 8:17 PM, mythtv . <mythtv at harley-jones.co.uk>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 6 June 2011 21:05, Tim Draper <veehexx at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hey all,
> >>
> >> since updating my mythtv install (0.24.x to 0.24.x... ie: minor updates)
> >> i've had a weird issue of the livetv files (/var/lib/mythtv/livetv/)
> showing
> >> under the recordings area in mythweb or mythfrontend.
> >> the filesystem paths are all correct, and do appear to work ok (livetv
> >> goes into /var/lib/mythtv/livetv/, recordings go into
> >> /var/lib/mythtv/recordings).
> >>
> >> the livetv files do not appear to be being deleted once the program
> >> finishes, so it appears to be a 'permanent' file rather than a temp
> caching
> >> file that would get deleted when the show is over (if thats how mythtv
> >> works)
> >>
> >> i am able to delete the non-active livetv files, and they stay deleted.
> >>
> >> help!
> >>
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> >
> > Hasn't this always been the case? I have always had this behaviour, with
> the
> > exception of livetv recordings showing in the frontend until I explicitly
> > changed the setting in 0.24 to show these. Certainly all the time I have
> > been running myth from 0.21 onwards it has been the case that I have had
> to
> > manually delete all livetv recordings etc
> > Martin
>
> In fact, this has never been the case (at least, not in any version
> you've run of Myth)-- Myth expects that the space made available to it
> belongs to it-- it will auto-expire liveTV after 24 hours, or when you
> fill the drive, whichever comes first, by default.  Live TV will only
> stick around longer than 24 hours if the setting for that duration is
> set to longer.
>
> To the OP:  You are seeing Live TV in the PBB because you have set the
> filter to show Live TV.  You can turn that filter off and go on using
> myth as you always have, and live TV will be expired according to the
> policy you have set (or the defaults) as it always has.
>
> See:
>
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/FAQ#Live_TV_Questions
>
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/FAQ#Why_aren.27t_my_new_recordings_showing_up_in_Watch_Recordings.3F
>
> For information on how to change the filters.
>
> Robert
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Strange, I have never change the defaults and my LiveTv recordings dont get
deleted after 24 hours. But then I dont record a lot so my disk never fills
up so the system is not autoexpiring anything?
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