[vdr] Re: Patch to avoid deletion of recordings, which have beenviewed

[Stefan Taferner <taferner@kde.org>]

On Friday 24 December 2004 02:55, Udo Richter wrote:
> HGM.bg (GMX) wrote:
> >>What about a marker flag in the recordings menu saying 'this
> >>recording is ready to be deleted'?
> >
> > Why not just delete it ? (Yellow Button) VDR will then delete it when
> > he's a little bit idle !
>
> Ok, this needs more explanation. ;)
>
> I have lots of old recordings lying around, and let VDR do the cleanup
> whenever space is needed.
>
> VDR currently deletes a recording if space goes below 1Gb, one recording
> is older than its lifetime, lifetime is not 99, filename does not start
> with %, and if priority is lower than all other recordings priority
> matching the previous criterias, or if priority is equal to least
> priority of all recordings matching the previous criterias and age is
> oldest of them. (not counting already deleted recordings. They will go
> first, in order of age.)

Why dont you simply set lifetime to 99 for those valuable recordings?
Or by another harddisk....

--Stefan