Cleanup Deleted Recordings?

Channels DVR Server
#1

I am using Channels DVR to integrate and record from all of my sources recording from TV Everywhere, Locast, and HDHomerun tuners.

Then I reprocess and reorganize the recordings with MCEBuddy and move them into the libraries for my media center.

Is there a way to have Channels DVR cleanup it's recording database and remove the files that have been manually deleted or removed by other programs?

Regards.

-Scott

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#3

Send an HTTP PUT request to the /dvr/pruner/deleted endpoint on your Channels server.

For example:

$ curl -XPUT http://127.0.0.1:8089/dvr/pruner/deleted
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#4

Thanks for the super helpful replies guys.

Obviously that is super easy to script and schedule and now my server cleans itself up every morning at 5AM.

-Scott

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#5

I'm having a deletion problem too. Shows are recorded correctly and are deleted from the database appropriately but don't delete the file correctly. For example each morning I record the news, set to only keep the newest one. My Channels DVR interface correctly shows that only one episode is available, but if I look at the Windows Explorer folder it has many and I need to manually delete them or the drive would get full. Does Pruning help with this, or is there another setting I'm missing?

#6

Actually just found your new feature to keep things around for 7 days. So I guess this is the desired/anticipated way it should work, and things will disappear after 7 days. My news example happens to record 7 days x 8GB so I noticed the drive filling faster than usual.

#7

You're correct. We have a new feature we are testing to make deleting less scary:

In the latest build it now provides a setting to specify if you would like to keep recordings in the Trash for 1, 3, or 10 days: