I demand that hgm.bg may or may not have written... > vdr-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >>> #define REMOVECHECKDELTA 3600 // seconds between checks for removing >>> deleted files >> Experimental patch (compile-tested only) attached. It adjusts the removal >> check scheduling so that removal occurs at (by default) 6 minutes after >> deletion. There is a 1-minute minimum delay, and the delay is reset every >> time a recording is marked for deletion. >> This also gives you enough time to unmark a recording, either by renaming >> it manually or by using an undelete plugin. > Okay, i will try this, thx It turns out that that one contained a stupid bug - it'd default to 54 minutes, not six. See attached. (BTW, fix your subject prefix or we'll get long "Re: AW:" strings...) Klaus: are you deliberately using > rather than >= in the removal time checks in RemoveDeletedRecordings()? -- | Darren Salt | d youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | nr. Ashington, | Debian, | s zap,tartarus,org | Northumberland | RISC OS | @ | Toon Army | <URL:http://www.youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk/> (PGP 2.6, GPG keys) He who believes the past cannot be changed has not yet written his memoirs. -------------- next part -------------- --- vdr-1.3.34~/recording.c +++ vdr-1.3.34/recording.c @@ -62,10 +62,10 @@ bool VfatFileSystem = false; static cRecordings DeletedRecordings(true); +static time_t LastRemoveCheck = 0; void RemoveDeletedRecordings(void) { - static time_t LastRemoveCheck = 0; if (LastRemoveCheck == 0) { DeletedRecordings.Update(); LastRemoveCheck = time(NULL) - REMOVECHECKDELTA * 9 / 10; @@ -743,6 +743,7 @@ } isyslog("deleting recording %s", FileName()); result = RenameVideoFile(FileName(), NewName); + LastRemoveCheck = time(NULL) - REMOVECHECKDELTA + max (60, REMOVECHECKDELTA / 10); } free(NewName); return result;