Autoremove shows after certain time

adrian_vg@yahoo.com · 2007-10-24, 02:30 PM

Hi all,

Does anybody know if there is a plugin or utility that is able to automatically remove a show after a certain time?

I find myself recording shows and after a month of not having time to watch it I just delete it. Since I'm really low on hd-space (and not likely to upgrade my 600GB-raid0 array anytime soon), I'd like to find out if there some kind of cleaner-upper for GB-PVR available?

TIA.

daphatty · 2007-10-24, 04:21 PM

Video Archive has that functionality. I used to have a rule setup for the Wifey's soaps and Oprah shows. If she didn't watch them, off they go! Smile

jksmurf · 2007-10-24, 11:39 PM

You brave, brave man. Wink

k.

daphatty · 2007-10-25, 04:26 PM

jksmurf Wrote:You brave, brave man.

k.

Well, not so brave. I was able to establish an agreement with the wife early in my HTPC days. Back then, I only had a single 160GB hard drive so recording space was limited. I was able to work out a 1 week deletion rule with her because of the limitation. In hindsight, I should have used that situation as leverage to spend more money on the hobby. Oh well. I can pretty much do whatever I want with the HTPC now so in the end, it's all good. Smile

adrian_vg@yahoo.com · 2007-10-27, 12:50 PM

jksmurf Wrote:You brave, brave man.

k.

Well, actually, my initial qustion was because of wifey's soaps too... Big Grin

I'll look into Video Archive. I think I've had a look at it before but there was some incompatibility with v0.9x or something to that effect. In any case, I'll look into it again.

Thx.

kayak4ever · 2007-10-27, 01:26 PM

When scheduling a recurring show, one of the options is how many to keep. Thus, if you want to keep a maximum of one month of a particular show, you could like the "keep recordings" to 20 and when the 21st show is recorded, the oldest show will be deleted (as I recall).

mila06 · 2007-10-27, 10:55 PM

Is this the case with manual recordings? I have a manual recording that record 30 minutes every day. It would be nice to have a "number of shows to keep"-option in manual recordings.

bgowland · 2007-10-27, 11:24 PM

mila06 Wrote:Is this the case with manual recordings?

I think the answer is probably no. The 'Keep' option doesn't show up when scheduling reoccurring manual recordings. I'd guess it's a lot harder to identify manual recordings from the same series than it is to identify reoccurring recordings by programme title.

Cheers,
Brian

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