Full hard drive auto deletion options for recordings

[lopazopy]

Is there a plugin or workaround to automatically delete recordings when your hdd fills up and you want to make room for new recordings?

After searching the forums, I could not find the answer to this question. Maybe XRecord-recycler does this, but I can't find the documentation that tells me what all of the capabilities of XRecord are.

Thanks for your help and sorry if this has been answered before. Where is the FAQ?

[stu8080]

You do have the option to specify how many reocuring recordings to keep, for instance i only keep 5 episodes of 'the simpsons' otherwise my disk would be full in a week!

[lopazopy]

You do have the option to specify how many reocuring recordings to keep, for instance i only keep 5 episodes of 'the simpsons' otherwise my disk would be full in a week!

Yes, this is true, and I thank you for your help, but lets say that I take this route and I end up keeping 2 recordings for every episode. What happens when my list of reoccurring recordings gets too big for my hard drive to keep 2 episodes each?

[lopazopy]

I'm still looking for a way to do this. If anyone could help me, I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks!

[daphatty]

Yes, this is true, and I thank you for your help, but lets say that I take this route and I end up keeping 2 recordings for every episode. What happens when my list of reoccurring recordings gets too big for my hard drive to keep 2 episodes each?

Then you need to buy another hard drive.

Seriously though, there aren't any plugins that will start deleting stuff when you get low on space. The only option you have is a) start converting your recordings to AVIs, b) buy a second hard drive and use the Video Archive plug-in to transfer stuff over, or c) start watching the shows you record.

[erik]

I use this very simple batch file.
It runs every night
It does not check space but it limits the amount of mpeg files kept.
The ini file gives the patterns of how much of certain files to keep.
On each line you will first find a wildcarded mask and then the amount of mpegs to keep matching that mask

Put it in the directory you want to keep limited in space.

Purge.bat

Code:

@Echo off

for /F "usebackq tokens=1,2" %%i in ("purge.ini") do call :processline "%%i"  "%%j"
goto :eof

:processline
Echo .
Echo Rule : %1 %2
Echo -------------------------
dir/o:-d/b %1 >purge.lst
set/A counter=0
for /F "usebackq delims=| tokens=1,2" %%k in ("purge.lst") do call :processfile "%%k"  %%2 %%1
del/q purge.lst
goto :eof

:processfile
set/A level=%2
if  %counter% GEQ %level% call :purgefile %1
if  %counter% LSS %level% echo Keep:  "%~dpn1.*"
set/A counter=counter+1
goto :eof

:purgefile
echo Purge: "%~dpn1.*"
Del/q "%~dpn1.*"
goto :eof

:eof

My purge.ini

Code:

NOS*.mpg    1
cinema*.mpg 5
law*.mpg    5
*.mpg    60