Kevin Kuphal wrote: > This always makes me ask...why? With your auto-expiration options set > (unless you never expire anything), Myth will perfectly manage your > space to make sure it removes old shows to make room for new. LiveTV > will be expired before anything else so it is irrelevant when > calculating "space" as it will be automatically removed when needed. > I'd spend a little more time configuring your expiration rules to match > your viewing behavior and a little less time worrying about the physical > disk space because the system is designed to manage that for you. > > Kevin
I keep asking why you can not understand that some people prefer to manage their own disk space. I do not want a computer to ever decide to automatically delete something. If I have it recorded and saved, it is because I want to watch it. The way I see it is that new shows are more likely to have upcoming repeats than older, syndicated reruns. If I miss a new episode due to space issues, I won't have to wait long. If something I have saved gets deleted, it could be a year or more before it is recorded again. However, I do like to know exactly how much free space remains so that I can manage whether or not a recording will be missed due to space. Someone did post the sql commands to mark all current recordings to not expire. I just still feel much safer knowing that autoexpire will never run. I do not trust a computer to only delete what it should. Mistakes happen when scheduling, etc. I would have much preferred that live tv recordings be flagged as such. If the user pressed the record button, the flag would be removed. There could then be a different clean up thread to remove live tv buffers independent of autoexpire. Perhaps as simply as when live tv is exited and when the backend starts. I fully understand that this is working as those that contribute code want. I can accept that. I am just sick and tired of the constant replies implying that those of us that do not like this functionality need to get a clue. Many of us just have different opinions and usage preferences. _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
