[mythtv-users] Disk Space / not-deleting-recordings

[R. G. Newbury]

On 04/23/2016 09:51 PM, Mike Holden wrote:
> On 24 April 2016 at 09:05, R. G. Newbury <newbury at mandamus.org
> <mailto:newbury at mandamus.org>> wrote:
>

> Ok, answer this question then: what is your "time to keep deleted
> recordings" setting set to?

0   ZERO,  NADA

> This has been mentioned several times, but you haven't yet said whether
> you have set this or changed it from the default.

It has been set to zero for some years.

  > Bottom line, this setting controls what MythTV does around recording
> deletions, and if you have set it contrary to what you want MythTV to
> do, then it won't do what you want, it will do what you told it to do.

And even if it was set to something else, 'Delete Now' should work. And 
it does not, which was the point of contention, not the auto-expire period.

> So forget this philosophical debate about whether free space is wasted
> space etc.,

That wasn't my debate. Free space should be empty space, IF I WANT IT TO 
BE REPORTED AS SUCH.

G