[mythtv-users] Immediate autoexpire recent rec. despite plenty of old rec. to expire

[Michael T. Dean]

On 10/30/2013 08:59 AM, Andre Newman wrote:
> On 30 Oct 2013, at 10:48, warpme wrote:
>
>> Hi *
>>
>> I need small consultancy regarding unpleasant issue witch started recently in my production system: random recent recordings are quickly 'disappearing' causing users complain like 'argh my favorite show again wasn't recorded'.
>>
>> Checking on logs it looks like those recording were recorded OK - but they expired immediately (within minutes after rec. finishes).
>> My hypothesis is that myth expiring them for making room for new recordings. But in the same time few weeks old recordings are not expired…
> I have had a similar sounding problem a few times.
>
> I found that accessing the recordings directory with some other application had changed the access rights of some of the recordings, I found that Myth was trying to expire old recordings but was unable to delete them. I had some failed recordings and a lot of recent recordings expired.
>
> Maybe it's worth checking the rights on your recording?
>

Yes, that would also cause problems.  If MythTV is unable to delete a 
recording it's trying to expire, it will skip it and go to the next one 
on the list.  Definitely worth checking.

Mike