[mythtv-users] AutoExpire: Oldest Show First, yet newly recorded shows still expire...

[Steven Adeff]

On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Michael T. Dean
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 07/23/2011 11:37 AM, Steven Adeff wrote:
>> ok, I just got the backend restarted with those log settings working
>> (looots of autoexpire info showing now...)
>>
>> I also just checked the Deleted group. One recording, a new episode of
>> a show that aired Friday night was put into the Deleted group almost
>> immediately, then a few hours later the episode had a repeat airing
>> and Myth recorded that, then it put *that* recording of the episode
>> into the Deleted group...
>>
>> anyway, now that the log is showing the proper info I should be able
>> to get you useful info.
>>
>
> Steve, have you gotten any logs showing MythTV expiring a recent
> recording while using -v file (or -v file,extra), yet?  Or, have you
> figured out what was going on?

So far nothing has expired "early" since I've gone through my
recording rules and such that we've discussed in this thread. it makes
me think something was misconfigured in some way causing the problem
and in trying to trouble shoot it with your help I've "undone" or
"reset" whatever it was. Of course, it could also be that it is
deleting without using the expire group and I just haven't noticed it
doing this yet, but none of the shows I watch have done this and none
of my housemates have complained about it to me either.

I'm definitely still logging and checking the expire group every day
so if/when I see something occur I'll let you know. I think I may try
changing the expire rule to use one of the non-recording date based
methods to see if that causes things to act wonky again. Right now I
have it set to delete the "oldest" recordings.

-- 
Steve
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