[mythtv-users] Delete Oldest not working

[Robert Dege]

Mike,

I checked for preserved episodes by running the following mysql command
(SELECT * FROM recorded WHERE preserve = 1 AND title="Sesame Street";).
Only one entry appeared, which I already knew about.

I looked at all of the episodes in the recorded table, but didn't see
anything out of the ordinary in regards to storagegroup, playgroup, or
profile.  I did notice that one episode has a 0 entry for season, episode,
and recordid.  Could any of those entries affect the "Delete Oldest"?

-Rob



On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 7:31 PM, Joseph Fry <joe at thefrys.com> wrote:

>
>  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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