DVR auto deleting records??
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There is a setting for how many episodes of a particular event you have set to record. If you go beyond that setting the DVR will delete the oldest one at a time.
Yeap and I believe that number is indicated on the "Create Timer" screen. No idea how high it is by default but it must be fairly high (I've seen 15-20 recordings of a show that my wife records but rarely gets the chance to watch).
From my 612 I believe it is 20 recordings. You also have an option to protect the recording. It is on the DVR event screen
If you want to retain more than 20 episodes of a show, your best bet is to move them to an ehd. There is no limit there. I have 70+ episodes of Globe Trekker from PBS on a ehd.
You can setup protection on series you care about. It will delete other things instead.
a warning would be nice though, I noticed a recording or two missing from the bottom of my list when the capacity was less than 2 hours.
the episode limit does not seem to be a factor on my 722k as it is set at 20 and yet I have over 20 episodes of Dexter and SOA on there.
the episode limit does not seem to be a factor on my 722k as it is set at 20 and yet I have over 20 episodes of Dexter and SOA on there.
When would it warn you ? Does it pop-up during that 1:30 (I think) countdown timer telling you an event is scheduled ? If it did, but got no response from the user (i.e. a timer fires when no one is home or watching TV), what does it default to ? If it deletes an older recording, people might complain that it deleted something (important). If it doesn't delete, that means the recording scheduled won't have room, so it skips the timer ? People might complain...
maybe a pop up telling you your hdd is almost full.....heck they got a pop up for just about everything else
I was wondering about that. So if I set a movie or tv shot to Protected, it won't get deleted?
Correct. It will delete something else though in order to make room. If a protected event is the oldest and would normally be the item to delete, it just has to move to the next oldest. Imagine that you want to record a 2-1/2 hour event and the now oldest items are 1/2 hour shows. It might clear out multiple ones !
Not sure if Protected would bypass the 20 episode limit. The best way to avoid a deletion is to use an ehd. Move anything you want to save to the ehd. No limit there. I have 70 episodes of one series stored on one of my ehd's.
There is no 20-episode limit, unless you specify it in the timer. You can edit the timer and change the limit to unlimited. Change it to "#" on the older receivers or "ALL Events" on Hopper.
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