I’ve set up Jeopardy to record daily. I want to manage the number of episodes I keep, which I’ve currently set to three (3). This is similar to the same settings that I have for my local and national news recordings.
My news recordings automatically delete after 3 days, as I have it set to. Jeopardy, however, with the exact same settings NEVER deletes unless I manually clean it up. I’ve removed the recording from my DVR settings, and tried to re-add it, but with the same results. In fact, when I re-add, it adopts the “old” settings which show to keep 3 episodes, so I’m wondering if there’s something lingering, incorrectly, in a database somewhere that needs to be cleaned up?
I’d really like to get this rectified, as manually maintaining the number of episodes is getting a bit tiresome after a few months (this has been going on for some time, across versions). Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!
Have you played the episodes? The Keep option only covers unplayed episodes so, if you have played them, you’ll also meet to set the “Delete episodes after playing” option.
Typically, the administrative account does not watch any of the shows, but maintains the setup of the recordings. So, in the case of this show, as well as some nightly news broadcasts I record, none of them are “watched” by the admin user, and thus the “unplayed” episode setting should be honored. My nightly news broadcasts are performing correctly, never accumulating more than 3 days of shows, while Jeopardy never deletes any episodes unless I do so manually.
I had originally set up the recording to not delete episodes, but then subsequently changed it to three days, so it seems (though I can’t prove it yet) that the “new” settings are not being honored. Even when I’ve deleted the recording of Jeopardy entirely, when I set it back up, it grabs all of the previous settings from the show, despite my defaults being different, so it tends to make me think that “something” is being kept in a database somewhere, and possibly cleaning that out would fix the issue, but I have no idea of the what or where part of that hypothesis.
