[mythtv-users] mythweb not deleting recordings?

[Michael T. Dean]

On 12/29/2012 12:48 AM, Paul Stillwell wrote:
> On Dec 28, 2012, at 8:04 PM, Nick Rout wrote:
>>
>> On Dec 29, 2012 1:43 PM, "Paul Stillwell" wrote:
>>
>>> Upon further reflection, I'm not sure any recordings are getting 
>>> deleted. I saw some files that I *think* corresponded to a certain 
>>> show, I deleted that show from within mythfrontend and looked and 
>>> the files are still there. Maybe I'm mistaken and those files are 
>>> for some different show. Any thoughts on how I can verify that files 
>>> are getting deleted? After deleting the show from within 
>>> mythfrontend and seeing that the files are still there, I ran 
>>> 'find_orphans.py' and it didn't find anything, so maybe things are 
>>> getting deleted and I'm just confused.
>>
>> Look in your deleted recordings group.
>>
>
> I did some poking around tonight and I can't find any deleted 
> recordings group. I ran mythtv-setup and looked in the Storage groups 
> section and I didn't see anything in there about a deleted recordings 
> group (there wasn't anything pre-defined like there is for Live TV et 
> al). I could have created one, but I would guess that anything that 
> has some built in functionality would have a pre-defined group for it. 
> I also poked around in the fronted setup stuff and couldn't find 
> anything there either. Is the deleted recordings group something that 
> came about in 0.26? I'm running 0.25.3.
>
> Thanks for any help anyone can provide!
>

Note that Storage Groups are very different from Recording Groups.  
Storage Groups are logical names for a list of directories in which 
files can be found.  Recording Groups are just (generally) 
user-specified group names for organizing recordings--i.e. you can 
create Recordings Groups for Movies and Cooking and Science and ... and 
then use those names as a filter in (or "group name" in the left column 
of) Watch Recordings to quickly find the shows you want to watch.  The 
Deleted recording group is a special group created by MythTV to use as a 
delete queue--to allow you to delete a recording whenever you want--even 
if it's in use by MythTV at the time you say to delete it.

Mike