Hi Klaus, Is there a possibility to implement the same way .update works a way to start the cleanup thread which is deleting the deleted recordings ? I'm usually low an diskspace and when try to free space for new recordings it takes mostly more than 5 minutes of an idle VDR to delete the recordings on the system. Sometimes 5 Minutes is too long :). Is this harcoded anywhere in the code ? Than it would be enough for me to shorten this amount of time. /hgm.bg