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Originally Posted by Joedm45
I've got a bit of a long query and was wondering if anyone had a workaround for it, here goes...
I was checking the EPG earlier to see what was on TV over Christmas. Saw something I wanted to record on saturday so hit the button and a warning came up. I can't remember the exact wording as it was a full SD page with a paragraph of text but it was along the lines of 'this will not record as you do not have enough disk space' it also mentioned that this could be due to series links being set to 'until I delete' and to change this setting to free up space. The outcome was that the show did not get marked as to be recorded. My TiVo is currently about 60% full (1TB version)
I recently changed all 50 odd series links/wishlists to keep 'until I delete' from 'until space needed' as I was getting annoyed that shows were being auto deleted before I could watch them even though my TiVo has never been more than 75% full.
My only guess why this warning comes up and the show will not record is that TiVo assumes that you will not delete anything in my shows between now and when the show is to be recorded and by the time that day comes along it will be full with all the planned recordings before then. I hope that makes sense.
My first port of call was to go into planned recordings and start deleting shows that I wasn't too fussed about. Tried recording the show again and it worked but with yet another error message pointing out that another show on the following day will not record due to disk space.
Sorry for the long story but has anyone seen this before and know a way around it? I've got a feeling its one of those TiVo quirks but thought I'd ask anyway.
Cheers
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There's nothing there to worry about as long as you are actually watching the stuff in my shows and deleting as you go. You're right that the message means "if you delete nothing then by the time this program comes along the disk will be full" I keep everything I record until I delete and I get that message a lot but haven't yet had a problem, but then most of what I watch is from my shows so I'm regularly deleting stuff as well.
I like to keep some series and watch them in big chunks, like box sets, and I've got other things, like the complete Porridge, which is a go to folder when there's not much else on, which is why I want to be in charge of deleting, rather than leaving it to Tivo.