[vdr] Re: vdr not removing deleted movies

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Andreas Hölscher wrote:
> 
> > Andreas Hölscher wrote:
> >> hi,
> >> if I delete a movie in vdr it will not be removed even if the cpu has
> >> nearly no load.
> >>
> >> The directory has the correct name (<DATE>.99.99.del).
> 
> > That's normal. VDR runs kind of a "garbage collection" I think every
> > hour or so (and on a restart). Then it deletes all recordings marked
> > with "*.del". So just be patient, it will be deleted, but not
> > instantly.
> Yes, I know that. I did not describe the problem exactly enough: even if I
> wait for a long time (a hole night for example) with no recordings or
> other vdr activities and without heavy cpu load it does not delete the
> marked recordings.

Then I guess you'll need to do some debugging in RemoveDeletedRecordings()
(in recording.c) to see what goes wrong there.

Klaus


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