Manual Recordings and Auto Deleting - Is there a way

[svemuri]

Ok, I've searched and read all the debates about the manual recordings (or resolved conflicts) not being auto deleted ever. I understand that there are two camps on this. I personally don't like the fact that I have no OPTION to select one way or other. Personally I want to treat manual recordings as any other recording but may be at a different priority.

The question is : Is there any *automated* way to clear the manual flag on recordings?

My problem is this. Kids record bunch of shows manually, filling up the drive. Being kids, I can't expect them manage their manual recordings. Eventually in a week or so, the whole drive(s) (especially since they are OTA HD) will fill up and *no* show will get recorded. Now, I have to spend a lot of time going through shows and manually clearing that flag or deleting them in bulk (which they don't like).

So I am looking for an automated way. Is there a property that changes this behaviour? Any other tool? A metadata editor perhaps? Can I do SELECT/UPDATE query some how? Anything would be fine for now.

Sage: If you are listening, please add a global OPTION to treat manual recordings as any other ... PLEASE!

Thanks
Sarat.

[olyar15]

Agree. To me, a manual recording is no different than a favourite recording and should be treated as such. If I want to keep it, I will archive it.

[Fastrack]

If you want to bulk remove the "Manual Recording Status", in the webserver it's quite easy.

Goto "Sage Recordings" and Select all or only the ones you want, and from the drop-down box select "Clear Manual Record Status" and click 'Execute'

[svemuri]

Thanks for the tip. That saved me a bunch of time. Now, I need to figure out if I can automate this.

Originally Posted by Fastrack

If you want to bulk remove the "Manual Recording Status", in the webserver it's quite easy.

Goto "Sage Recordings" and Select all or only the ones you want, and from the drop-down box select "Clear Manual Record Status" and click 'Execute'

[GKusnick]

Source code for that plugin is available, so depending on your programming skills, you may be able to modify the source to do it automatically.

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