[mythtv-users] mythtv dropping mysql???

[Rich Freeman]

On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Eric Sharkey <eric at lisaneric.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Rich Freeman
> <r-mythtv at thefreemanclan.net> wrote:
>> How about this one, run hourly from crontab:
>> UPDATE \`recorded\`  SET \`autoexpire\` = '1',
>>  \`preserve\` = '0' WHERE \`seriesid\` IN ('<bunch of ids>') ;
>>
>> Do you REALLY want to create a UI for that?
>
> What are you trying to do with that one?  You're afraid users will be
> enabling auto-expire on shows and trying to set them back to what you
> think they should be hourly?  But you're not afraid they'll just
> explicitly delete your stuff?
>

Read it more closely.  The problem is the opposite one. I'm concerned
that users will DISABLE auto-expire on shows and NOT delete them when
I want the system to avoid having 300 episodes of spongebob or
whatever clogging up my disk.  They can delete their shows if they
want to.  :)

It is a completely oddball thing, and hardly something I'd want in the
UI.  I don't expect anybody to think it is a good idea.  It is just
one of those things that having access to the database makes trivial.

--
Rich