Keep episodes from the last X days deletes shows immediately

I have found out the hard way that setting episodes to record to any setting other than “Keep All” immediately deletes episodes - even unwatched, recently recorded episodes.

I would set up a show recording and select “Keep episodes from the last 30 days”… after a recording finished, it would load metatdata and then delete the episode. That particular episode wasn’t even a day old and it would still be deleted. Its possible that “X episodes” settings do that same when setting up a recording. I haven’t tested that yet.

It seems that the “Keep episodes from the last X days” isn’t using the recording date.

After a few episodes of a show are set up and recorded with the “Keep All” setting I tried changing the Keep settings.

The “X episode” seems to work fine keeping the last X episodes.

Again the “Keep episodes from the last X days” will delete everything even if a show was added/recording in under X days.

This is not how I expect the “Keep episodes from the last X days” setting to work. Can anyone confirm this?

Lots of threads on the forum where users have discovered that this setting does not use record date. Plex uses the original air date of the episode.

I kinda figured… odd considering the setting (at least to me) implies date recorded.