[mythtv-users] Add to playlist->Delete not deleting?

[Michael T. Dean]

On 09/10/2015 09:49 AM, Ian Evans wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 9:40 AM, Michael T. Dean 
> <mtdean at thirdcontact.com <mailto:mtdean at thirdcontact.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 09/10/2015 09:33 AM, Ian Evans wrote:
>
>         On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
>
>             Hoi Ian,
>
>             Thursday, September 10, 2015, 2:38:04 PM, you wrote:
>
>                 I deleted about 40+ episodes of a series yesterday at
>                 4pm. I noticed this
>                 morning, about 17 hours later, that I hadn't recovered
>                 the drive space. I
>                 know there's slow delete, but that's pretty slow. :-)
>                 I was browsing the recording directories from my
>                 winbox and as the icons
>                 were drawing, I could see all the episodes still
>                 there. I also saw mpeg
>                 files for another series I had group deleted earlier
>                 in the year.
>                 Both of these shows were deleted via Add to
>                 Playlist->Delete.
>                 My regular, one episode at a time deletes work fine.
>                 Is there a chance
>                 thePlaylist/Delete mechanism is broken?
>
>             Depending on your settings, they won't get really deleted
>             until the
>             space is needed for a new recording!
>
>         I did not know that. Sorta throws off your space calculations
>         e.g. you want
>         to tape an episode marathon. Watch Recordings indicates you
>         have 175GB
>         available, but it could really be 350GB for example?
>
>
>     Backend status page, which is available in MythWeb, too, will show
>     you how much space you have taken up by Deleted recordings.
>
>     Or, if you want to see the space with tools outside of MythTV, you
>     can go into Watch Recordings and MENU|Change Group View|Deleted,
>     then select shows to delete and they'll be removed from disk (like
>     deleting from the trash bin in Windows).
>
>
> Thanks. I see the "Space Used by Deleted Recordings" in Mythweb, but I 
> don't see it in System Status->Machine Status. Is it elsewhere?

No, not yet.  It's only available on the backend status web page, which 
can be retrieved directly from the backend using a browser or via MythWeb.

Mike