Age-based retention policy! Purge old recordings

[othello]

I would like NextPVR to have a retention policy that would automatically delete recordings after a period of time. Not the existing feature that saves a certain number of recording files. This is one feature of MCE that I miss. I don't have to periodically purge the files by hand, a tiring and time-consuming process. A per-recording override function should be available, too, to prevent the recording from purging.

[2leftfeet]

good idea, I second the request.

[Elmo Putney]

Thirded - I requested something similar a few years back.

For instance if I record the F1 racing - if I haven't watched it within a week then I'm never going to watch it.

[p37307]

How about something like this in a script file?
Simple Batch code.
I think this should work unless the code language has changed

Code:

REM Remove recordings and files older than number of days
REM Add to UpdateEPG.bat script in NPVR Script directory to have it run daily
REM Change the location of where your files are
REM Change -NumberOfDays to whatever age you want. -14 would be 14 days
REM Be warned. This deletes files!
REM you can change *.* to *.ts if you only want to delete the *.ts files.
REM Leave *.* to delete all files older that number of days, esp if you convert from TS to MP4 & delete the other files created like edl, images, etc
REM WARNING This deletes files.

forfiles /p "D:\where\ever\Your\Recording\Directory\is" /s /m *.* /D -NumberOfDays /C "cmd /c del @path"

REM You have been warned.