[mythtv-users] mass deleting shows?

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 01:24:41PM -0400, Pam Ashworth wrote:
> >> Add the shows you want to delete to a playlist and delete all of them  
> >> with 1 delete command. The hint here is that you can add all of the  
> >> programs in a group to a playlist by selecting the group on the left  
> >> of the Watch Recordings screen (hit M(enu) then Add This Group to  
> >> Playlist). Then M(enu) again and choose Playlist Options. Delete on  
> >> the bottom will delete everything in your playlist.
> 
> thanks for that. I used it yesterday to move 125 episodes of Scrubs to
> a different Recording Group :-)

Prison Break airs on Mondays?

er, sorry:

You have 125 eps of Scrubs already?

> >On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 01:57:20PM -0400, Ryan Steffes wrote: > For
> >some reason, I occasionally get crashes on the backend when I try >
> >to rapidly delete one show after another.
>
> there's a button in one of the setup screens that says Delete Slowly.
> I'm not sure if it means what I think, but I checked it. And they
> really do delete slowly... (it seems to cause less glitches in
> playback while deleting, this way)

Delete Slowly has to do with each individual GB+ file, not in between
files; it's for stupid filesystems.

Cheers,
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