Tivo - Recently Deleted Feature?

[GKusnick]

Originally Posted by reggie14

So, when you delete a show, really it just hides the show in the UI, sets it watched, then changes the airing date to something old. If it's a manual recording, then I suppose you have to remove the manual recording status too. That combination should move it up in the queue for deletion so you could still rely on Sage's autodelete functionality.

That would not cover the case of a Favorite with Autodelete turned off. Plus if you want to be able to undelete a deleted recording, you don't want to be overwriting useful information like air date and watched status. So my approach would be not to try to piggyback on the existing autodelete logic, but just add a separate thread that wakes up once a day and really deletes anything that's been in the deletion queue for more than N days.

[kbyrd]

Originally Posted by stanger89

You could always not delete stuff

Not possible. Apparently I'm incapable of doing what I intend

[kbyrd]

Originally Posted by sandor

yeah, what is the price of a 1 TB hard drive now-a-days? $80?

I delete things because I need my nice orderly list of shows to watch, not because I need the space. I do this for my desktop/laptop too. I delete things to get them out of sight, but I never empty the trash. It eventually deletes things when it needs space.

[stanger89]

You can configure the stock recordings list to only show "Not Watched" recordings. This will remove anything you've watched (or selected as watched) from the list, but won't delete it imediately.

[sandor]

Originally Posted by kbyrd

I delete things because I need my nice orderly list of shows to watch, not because I need the space. I do this for my desktop/laptop too. I delete things to get them out of sight, but I never empty the trash. It eventually deletes things when it needs space.

thats what i use folders for, rather than the trash. but to each their own.

i also keep my bills documents in a filing cabinet, rather than throwing them in the recycling bin to "hide" them...

[kbyrd]

Originally Posted by stanger89

You can configure the stock recordings list to only show "Not Watched" recordings. This will remove anything you've watched (or selected as watched) from the list, but won't delete it imediately.

Aha! I'll try that.

[kbyrd]

Originally Posted by sandor

thats what i use folders for, rather than the trash. but to each their own.

i also keep my bills documents in a filing cabinet, rather than throwing them in the recycling bin to "hide" them...

Thanks, I deserve that. What do you mean I need to keep receipts for tax reasons?

To be a bit pedantic, it's not the same for a few reasons:
Throwing something in the physical trash potentially ruins it. There's all kinds of crap in there. Not so with my compu-trash. Also, my regular trash can store a pretty small number of things and it is emptied regularly. My compu-trash will store many more things and I don't ever need to empty it because there's no rotting food in it. Something I compu-trashed six months ago could be in there today. Because of this, I'm more conscious of throwing physical things away. My compu-trash is more of a staging area for deletion and I've trained myself that it's ok to throw something in the compu-trash without thinking much about it.

When Tivo recently deleted came along, it resonated perfectly with this habit I've had forever so I probably miss it more than most.