[mythtv-users] Fast delete watched recordings

[Gerald Brandt]

On 2016-04-14 09:49 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 04/14/2016 10:40 PM, Gerald Brandt wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 2016-04-14 08:55 PM, Phill Edwards wrote:
>>>
>>> Gerald Brandt wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> 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

I'd rather have watched recordings auto delete after a period of time 
(not based on disk usage), much like manually deleted recordings.  
Filling my hard drive with junk is a waste.

Gerald


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