DVR and “keep 5 episodes” problem

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Hard to explain this one succinctly.

I have a DVR connected to an HDHomerun. I set it up to try it out, and truthfully forgot about it as I don’t use it yet. When I set it up, I clicked on a few shows to record like the news, and a bunch of sitcoms that were on at the time like Roseanne, and set it to keep the 5 most recent episodes to prevent the drive getting filled up. Additionally, I have it save to a DVR library — I keep this separate from a TV Shows library. While that may sound weird, I do it because the TV Shows library is curated / higher quality, no commercials, etc., and I don’t want OTA content mingled in there.

As mentioned, I forgot about the DVR and downloaded the 10 new Roseanne episodes and throw them in my TV Shows library. I watch the first 4. Every night during maintenance, Plex seems to be deleting episodes from the TV Shows library … I suspect (could be wrong) that because The DVR is set to record Roseanne, and I’ve told it to keep 5 episodes, it is deleting anything but the 5 latest episodes.

Assuming that is what is happening, my opinion is any delete operations should only apply to the library that the DVR is saving to. The DVR should not delete from any other library. Now, I haven’t tinkered with it much and the problem might be elsewhere, but has anyone else seen this?

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Yes and discussed on other forum threads. The DVR sets those settings for the Show, not a library. So whatever settings you add for a show when setting up the recording in the DVR are saved to the show settings within the Plex environment.

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First, thanks for the info – and apologies, was on mobile and didn’t do a thorough search before posting.

On the one hand I can understand why this may be desirable, but I think it could also be disastrous. In situations where say I’ve got some old X-Files DVDs ripped and in another library, I could see a situation where some user comes in, records the new season on the DVR, puts it on “keep 5 episodes…” and potentially blows away something in the library. Seems to me you’d always want to err on the side of NOT deleting something…

Off to search the other threads…

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Users can’t record so having someone other than the admin account setup a recording of some show couldn’t happen. Unless you allow everyone to use the admin account.