[mythtv] Additional Delete Options?

Brad DerManouelian myth at dermanouelian.com
Tue Mar 13 17:04:30 UTC 2007


On Mar 13, 2007, at 9:54 AM, Tim Musa wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I was talking with my dad, who owns a Tivo box, and he mentioned  
> what I thought was a pretty nice feature.  I have no idea if this  
> is something that has been discussed before, but I didn't find  
> anything in my search of the archives.  He said that on the Tivo,  
> when he deletes a recording it just gets flagged.  It doesn't  
> actually delete the file until some autoexpire limit gets hit  
> (either space or time).  To me, this sounds like a very easy option  
> to implement.  I would think that it would just require changing  
> the recording group of the recording to something similar to  
> "LiveTV".  Then it would just use the normal autoexpire process to  
> actually delete the file at some later time.
>
> Just an idea to help when my wife or kid accidentally deletes a  
> show after watching it.
>
> tim

This was recently discussed here:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/254355



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