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sixfoottwo

27-04-2014 21:45

TiVo space doubled

My brother has had his TiVo space doubled overnight. He was on the verge of being full. Has anyone any idea why this has happened and if he will be charged extra?

RobboEdin

27-04-2014 21:53

Re: TiVo space doubled

The space on TiVo is fixed.

What makes you think his space has doubled?

It may be that TiVo has performed some space management and deleted a lot of stuff.

Ben B

27-04-2014 21:55

Re: TiVo space doubled

He may find that some of his shows are missing if he doesn't set his recordings to 'Keep Until I Delete' so it will delete them automatically

spiderplant

27-04-2014 21:55

Re: TiVo space doubled

There is no facility for the total space to change, short of having a 500GB box physically replaced by a 1TB one. Either the software has miscalculated the space available, or some recordings have been deleted without him being aware.

I'd suggest a reboot for starters. If recordings have been deleted, Recording Hiccups should say why.

edit: Just re-read your post. If it's gone from (say) 99% full to 98% full, that's normal. The free space varies because the size of the time-shift buffers varies, depending on the bit-rate of the channels it is tuned to.

sixfoottwo

28-04-2014 20:43

Re: TiVo space doubled

He assured me no programmes have been lost. His box was the 'half size' model. The change went from 98% to 49%.

johnathome

28-04-2014 22:33

Re: TiVo space doubled

Has he checked the 'recently deleted' folder? The box may have emptied that as he was nearly full.

spiderplant

28-04-2014 23:25

Re: TiVo space doubled

Quote:

Originally Posted by sixfoottwo (Post 35693352)

He assured me no programmes have been lost. His box was the 'half size' model. The change went from 98% to 49%.

Definitely try a reboot

Quote:

Originally Posted by johnathome (Post 35693383)

Has he checked the 'recently deleted' folder? The box may have emptied that as he was nearly full.

Recently Deleted isn't counted in the used space. Nor are Suggestions.

johnathome

29-04-2014 12:41

Re: TiVo space doubled

Ok but when I go into the deleted folder why does it say on the right 'when space is needed for new recordings, shows in recently deleted are permanently deleted'?

arcimedes

29-04-2014 12:47

Re: TiVo space doubled

Quote:

Originally Posted by johnathome (Post 35693487)

Ok but when I go into the deleted folder why does it say on the right 'when space is needed for new recordings, shows in recently deleted are permanently deleted'?

What would you expect it to say? I have at times had to recover a file from the deleted folder so its just giving you a reminder that recordings here aren't secure.

andy_m

30-04-2014 05:35

Re: TiVo space doubled

Quote:

Originally Posted by johnathome (Post 35693487)

Ok but when I go into the deleted folder why does it say on the right 'when space is needed for new recordings, shows in recently deleted are permanently deleted'?

It isn't counted in the amount of space shown as percentage used, however, it obviously does take up actual space on the hard drive.

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