[mythtv-users] When the disk is full... what happens?

[Adam Auden]

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 17:25:30 -0800, Brad Templeton
<brad+myth at templetons.com> wrote:

> I can see how there's no easy win.   If you enable autoexpire, then
> old shows will vanish when the disk fills.  If you leave it off,
> one new show will get truncated mid-way (oddly this can be more
> frustrating than not recording at all depending on where it cuts out)
> and no new shows will be recorded until you notice.
> 
> Neither outcome is great.   All the other PVRs I have seen default
> to expiring old recordings, are there others that don't?   It is my
> taste but it need not be everybody's.
> 
> A possible outcome is to make it clear.  For example, if a person
> sets up a recording and sets it to "allow auto expire" (which is, I
> think, the default) they perhaps should get a warning indicating
> that this option will not do anything unless they enable global
> auto expire.   Or perhaps change "Allow Auto Expire" to
> "Allow Auto Expire (currently disabled)" or somesuch.
> 
> This is a place where help screens could also avoid surprises.

Certainly people deciding their own preference on this front is best. 
Perhaps rather than creating a truncated recording Myth could estimate
the disk space needed based on the program length it's about to record
and flag an error if it doesn't have room?  Not sure how useful it
would be but it seems the most elegant way of catching the problem.

A.

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