Auto Delete recorded shows

[qiuqiu]

Hi,

A couple of questions:

1. Does anyone know a way to define rules to delete recorded shows? (using age, quota etc) These days I have to clean up my harddisk once every few days.

2. From within GB-PVR, Is there a way to delete all eposides under a show? For example, I have 20 recordings under NBC News. (manual recording) When I delete them, I have to bring up each recording and delete one by one. Would be nice if I can delete them all together. I can delete all the files on the harddisk at once, but still has to clean up within GB-PVR.

Thank you for your help in advance!

Qiu

[sub]

1. Does anyone know a way to define rules to delete recorded shows? (using age, quota etc) These days I have to clean up my harddisk once every few days.

The only built-in auto deletion logic is when you schedule a recording and tell it to keep a maximum of X recordings. For that season recording, when X recordings has been reached each new recording will cause the deletion of the oldest episode.

2. From within GB-PVR, Is there a way to delete all eposides under a show? For example, I have 20 recordings under NBC News. (manual recording) When I delete them, I have to bring up each recording and delete one by one. Would be nice if I can delete them all together. I can delete all the files on the harddisk at once, but still has to clean up within GB-PVR.

If you delete a season recording from the 'Recurring' list in the Recordings screen it'll delete all the episodes associated with that season recording. Other than that you have to delete the episodes manually.

[qiuqiu]

Thanks. I think it would be nice to have a "catch up" feature. I really don't want to delete a season recording, but probably won't want to watch all what has recorded. It just time consuming to delete one at a time.

[pBS]

so when you get rid of the season recording schedule for a show, it DEletes the files??!! not behavior i knew about, or want..
or do you mean just the info in recordings screen?
still wouldn't want to have my data go poof, like say when a series ends, and you haven't seen them all yet, you'd want to keep the info till it wasn't needed..

seems like you should have to delete them manually, cuz as-is, you have no choice or possibility to do otherwise if you want to keep info and delete series sched. to stop recording new shows..tho i guess you could re-import from backups..

to delete a whole series, you could go into video library and hit delete on the subdir....but i guess that wouldn't get rid of the recording screen info..you'd have to do that manually...[not too hard cuz only buttons showing will be delete and close, just hit enter repeatedly on those shows]

[sub]

so when you get rid of the season recording schedule for a show, it DEletes the files??!! not behavior i knew about, or want..
or do you mean just the info in recordings screen?

Sorry, miss info on my part. When you delete a season recording it deletes all the pending episodes for that recording not those episodes already recorded. My brain wasnt working in the previous post.

[pBS]

i know how it is.... I'm a regular with the brain farts here...

i need to update my sig...i finally got up to current release since 99.12...
learning a whole new set of problems dealing with d3d, and new 16:9 display and new video and capture card and vfd.. [Santa was good to me this year]
now to stuff it all into the old vcr box..:p
lots of kinks to work out..but fairly smooth so far..

excellent to hear the news about the html and PCH betas...add me to the envy...lol