I was wondering if you accidently delete a program on the GENIE hr44 by mistake, Can you restore that show to watch it later ? or ist it permanently deleted?
As long as you, the user, understand that deleted programs will go away if space is needed. I can see threads on this forum about the system deleted stuff that I didn't want it to -not knowing that it needed the space.
As long as it's only a few days. Something like 2 days would work. One of his examples, a year, would be unworkable unless it "undeleted" by downloading it.
Why? there is no need for a time limit of any kind. It should simply keep whats been deleted until space is needed for something else and always record over the oldest deleted program first. Simple as that.... So if you dont record much you could have stuff available to un delete for months, if you record tons, it may last hours.. it should have zero impact on what you want to record.. and be totally seamless and transparent unless you need to actually use it. Its one of the few things I believe Tivo got very right...
Why? there is no need for a time limit of any kind. It should simply keep whats been deleted until space is needed for something else and always record over the oldest deleted program first. Simple as that.... So if you dont record much you could have stuff available to un delete for months, if you record tons, it may last hours.. it should have zero impact on what you want to record.. and be totally seamless and transparent unless you need to actually use it. Its one of the few things I believe Tivo got very right...
No real reason to set aside space for it. If your drive is full you'd have virtually no delete option. If you have space you'd potentially have weeks or months of shows in there. These shows are all still on the drive with a flag set to not display when they are "deleted". They don't actually get deleted until another show get written in it's space. As such there really isn't a huge reason why D* couldn't implement this feature. The UI is already there, the show flags are there, push button x while in list and it shows you the deleted shows and an option to recover which simply changes the show's flag back to visible. They could probably have it done in a few hours of work. Actually I'd be shocked if it wasn't already done and for whatever the reason, it is turned off or was removed because they didn't want it in there.
Eh I would say what is left on any individuals DVR will likely be consistent. Someone with lots of room always will have lots to un delete. Someone who regularly has 1% free will have very little always. I think the predictability part takes care of itself in these instances. .
Eh I would say what is left on any individuals DVR will likely be consistent. Someone with lots of room always will have lots to un delete. Someone who regularly has 1% free will have very little always. I think the predictability part takes care of itself in these instances. .
The issue of an almost full drive does not exist with the Hoppers' undelete feature. There is no limit on external drive storage on the account other than 6TB connected at one time.
The issue of an almost full drive does not exist with the Hoppers' undelete feature. There is no limit on external drive storage on the account other than 6TB connected at one time.
I can have a 16 TB drive connected to a genie. Don't see that's really an issue if you want to go that route.
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