Sky+ box says it ran out of disk space even though 50% is left!

Hi, hoping someone can help me...my SKY box is 50% full, and when I try
to record new shows, it stops and says the disk drive is full...I
imagine there's some sort of procedure I need to do to reformat or
refragment the drive in there - can I do this without erasing the shows
I already have??

How do I do the procedure?? Thanks..

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dbf wrote:
Hi, hoping someone can help me...my SKY box is 50% full, and when I try
to record new shows, it stops and says the disk drive is full...

You've set deletion to manual in your preferences. The box is complaining
that given all of the recordings you've set, the box will be full by the
time it's recorded everything. Set deletion to automatic and the problem
will disappear.

Dave
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I checked in Sky+ setups and its on automatic...any other ideas what the
problem could be??


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(David Marshall) wrote:

In article ,
dbf wrote:
Hi, hoping someone can help me...my SKY box is 50% full, and when I try
to record new shows, it stops and says the disk drive is full...

You've set deletion to manual in your preferences. The box is complaining
that given all of the recordings you've set, the box will be full by the
time it's recorded everything. Set deletion to automatic and the problem
will disappear.

Dave

"dbf" wrote in message
...
I checked in Sky+ setups and its on automatic...any other ideas what the
problem could be??


In article ,
(David Marshall) wrote:

In article ,
dbf wrote:
Hi, hoping someone can help me...my SKY box is 50% full, and when I try
to record new shows, it stops and says the disk drive is full...

You've set deletion to manual in your preferences. The box is complaining
that given all of the recordings you've set, the box will be full by the
time it's recorded everything. Set deletion to automatic and the problem
will disappear.

Dave

Sounds like your disk drive is badly fragmented and needs compacting.

Go into the installer setup menu as follows from the Sky remote:-

Services - 4 - 0 - 1 - Select ( note 5 button presses on the remote & don't
look at the sreen whilst doing this).

Select the option to rebuild the Sky+ Planner - This option is similar to a
computer's "Defragment disk" option - it should keep all your recordings and
/ or Planner entries and on top of it it will release any lost space that
you might have as well.

abenn

dbf wrote:

hoping someone can help me...my SKY box is 50% full, and when I try
to record new shows, it stops and says the disk drive is full...I
imagine there's some sort of procedure I need to do to reformat or
refragment the drive in there - can I do this without erasing the shows
I already have??

A planner rebuild should sort this out. See the FAQ and the service
menu.
You shouldn't need to perform a full reset, which would erase your
recordings.

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Thanks, that appears to have solved the problem :-)

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"abenn" wrote:

"dbf" wrote in message
...
I checked in Sky+ setups and its on automatic...any other ideas what the
problem could be??


In article ,
(David Marshall) wrote:

In article ,
dbf wrote:
Hi, hoping someone can help me...my SKY box is 50% full, and when I try
to record new shows, it stops and says the disk drive is full...

You've set deletion to manual in your preferences. The box is complaining
that given all of the recordings you've set, the box will be full by the
time it's recorded everything. Set deletion to automatic and the problem
will disappear.

Dave

Sounds like your disk drive is badly fragmented and needs compacting.

Go into the installer setup menu as follows from the Sky remote:-

Services - 4 - 0 - 1 - Select ( note 5 button presses on the remote & don't
look at the sreen whilst doing this).

Select the option to rebuild the Sky+ Planner - This option is similar to a
computer's "Defragment disk" option - it should keep all your recordings and
/ or Planner entries and on top of it it will release any lost space that
you might have as well.

abenn