[mythtv-users] How do I enable Deleted Recordings group?

Raymond Wagner raymond at wagnerrp.com
Thu Apr 19 16:43:15 UTC 2012


On 4/19/2012 12:38, Thomas Boehm wrote:
> Trey Thompson wrote:
>> I found it.
>> In the FrontEnd
>> Setup, Video, General, 2nd page.
>> The "Time to retain deleted recordings (day):" setting.  This appears to
>> default to 0.  I changed it to 90.  Deleted a recording, and now there's
>> a "Deleted" group with the recording in it.
> That is not logical to me as I just wrote in another thread. Why is that
> setting in mythfrontend? It should be in mythtv-setup.

Consider it less backend setup, and more settings that require the 
backend be closed for file access, or otherwise restarted for the 
changes to take effect.

> This setting seems to have changed since the upgrade. I'm pretty sure
> that my setting was "delete permanently if space is needed" or similar.
> Now it was set to 0 which means "delete within the next 5 to 20
> minutes". Maybe it is a new setting and the old one is gone. IIRC it was
> called differently in 0.24...

In 0.25, all deletes are now postponed in this manner.  It gets marked 
for deletion, and the auto-expirer unlinks it as it sees fit.  By 
default, that runs once every 15 minutes, but can be faster if recording 
heavily and low on free space.


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