[mythtv-users] Fast delete watched recordings

[Michael T. Dean]

On 04/14/2016 10:40 PM, Gerald Brandt wrote:
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> On 2016-04-14 08:55 PM, Phill Edwards wrote:
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>> Gerald Brandt wrote:
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>>> I added a new storage group for my recordings (0.27 fixes), and it 
>>> all works fine. However, it is slowly filling up with undeleted 
>>> watched recordings. Is there a setting for deleting watched 
>>> recordings faster?
>>
>> They should start expiring/deleting when the amount of space left 
>> reaches your minimum free space setting.
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> So MythTV will fill up hard drives with unnecessary and unwanted data.

Unused storage, like unused RAM, is wasted.  Deleting something that you 
could, eventually, decide you want to watch again just because you 
watched it once is just plain rude--and wrong--and wasteful if the 
storage space isn't being used to store anything else.  After all, what 
if I watched a show without my wife and MythTV just deleted it 
afterwards and she missed it?

> Anyway around this?

Delete what you want deleted.  Once you delete a show, it will be 
removed from the disk after the time period you told MythTV to leave them:

Time to retain deleted recordings (days)
Determines the maximum number of days before undeleting a recording will 
become impossible. A value of zero means the recording will be 
permanently deleted between 5 and 20 minutes later. A value of minus one 
means recordings will be retained until space is required. A recording 
will always be removed before this time if the space is needed for a new 
recording.

in the frontend settings editor under General settings.

That said, I'm pretty sure this is what you attempted to ask the first 
time around, but since you said, "filling up with undeleted watched 
recordings," people assumed you meant that the recordings were marked as 
watched, but you had never deleted them.

Mike