[mythtv-users] Delete Oldest not working

[Joseph Fry]

>  I was able to resolve the "ERROR when trying to delete file" error by
>>> creating an empty file in the Storage folder.
>>>
>>> As a test, I decided to start recording the news every night, and keep
>>> only 5 episodes.  This is also working correctly.
>>>
>>> Sesame Street is also working (somewhat).  A maximum of 17 episodes are
>>> kept, even though I have it setup to only keep a max of 15.
>>>
>>> So, for some reason or another, this "Delete oldest" issue appears to be
>>> local to the Sesame street recording schedule.  Are there any additional
>>> parameters that could affect how mythtv determines if certain episodes
>>> should be excluded from the "Delete oldest" list?  I only have one
>>> episode
>>> set to preserved, so I'm not sure why 2 extra episodes are being kept.
>>>
>>>  Are any of those episodes set to not expire?  Are any the result of a
>> different recording rule?  Are any of them in a different storage group,
>> like LiveTV?
>>
>> I don't know the logic used, but I know if I wrote it I wouldn't include
>> non-expiring recordings against my total, and would exclude livetv so that
>> someone who is scanning channels and lands on sesame street doesn't
>> prevent
>> it from recording the full episode at a later time.
>>
>
> Actually, he needs to check if Preserve is set on any of the Sesame Street
> episodes.  Preserve is used to specify whether episodes count toward the
> "record new and delete oldest" limit, not "Allow auto-expire."
>  (Auto-expire is something that happens when the file system fills.
>  "Record new and delete oldest" occurs with not-full file systems.)
>

Thank you for correcting me... I didn't realize there was a separate flag
for that.
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