[mythtv-users] External drive for recordings

[MS]

On 19/09/13 13:40, Stephen Worthington wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Sep 2013 13:21:32 +0100, you wrote:
>
>> On 19/09/13 10:09, Stephen Worthington wrote:
>>> On Thu, 19 Sep 2013 07:38:32 +0100, you wrote:
>>>
>>>> Folks:
>>>>
>>>> I have been unable to persuade Myth to record to an external USB hard
>>>> disc.  For instance -
>>>>
>>>> /media/gt/HD2012/mythtv/recordings = 775 mythtv:mythtv
>>>>
>>>> Set this in the Back End Default Directories and it is ignored even
>>>> though mounted and accessible by other means.
>>>>
>>>> I have succeeded previously so I must be missing something basic.
>>>>
>>>> Myth 1.026 under Ubuntu 13.04 running on a Revo.
>>>>
>>>> Any thoughts?  Many thanks.

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> or two, depending on various factors.  If you go to Information Center
>> System Status > AutoExpire List you may see files marked as
> (Deleted) at the top of that list.  Those are waiting to be deleted
> when the space is needed or they expire their waiting time.  You can
> get them to be actually deleted from there using the D key, but that
> only puts them onto the queue to be actually deleted in a short while.
> Only after the file has actually been deleted will the matching
> database entries be deleted.


Thanks for your comments Stephen, I am making no progress on this 
problem so have put it back on the shelf for now - Bah!

GT