Standby question

"MegaZone" wrote in message ...
"Jack Ak" shaped the electrons to say:
The unit is designed to operate 24 hours/day. An extended power off
could result in a problem when power is restored to the unit.

Powering the unit off for an extended time shouldn't cause any
problems.


Maybe not, but there are historically more disk drive failures
at startup than while operating. Ask any IBM Customer Engineer.

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MegaZone wrote:
"Peter Newman" shaped the electrons to say:
Too bad there isn't a "vacation" feature that would allow you to suspend
Season Passes without deleting them.

You can go into the ToDo list and just delete all the upcoming
recordings for the next two weeks.

One problem with this technique is if he does it, then it will fill up with
new shows that match lower priority season passes or wishlists.

As much as I realize this is against the mindset of Tivo, this actually has
bitten me sometimes.. and yes, it's when my hard drive is nearly full.
I sometimes will delete things on the To Do list since I know I won't have
enough space.. If I do that too soon to when I leave, then something else
will show up in the To Do list and record anyway. I really wish I could
"lock" the To Do list, at least for the next 24 hours or so lets say.
I sometimes do a minimal amount of locking by turning SP recordings
(double checkmark) into single checkmark recordings, so they don't get
overridden by something else.


I did find something else out recently. I had thought recordings were
deleted from bottom up when sorted by date. Just the other day I had
something like this:

Suggestion 3
Suggestion 2
Suggestion 1

and Suggestion 1 was the oldest recorded.. When I came back, only Suggestion 1
was left.

I had that happen a few weeks ago to a recording of mine too.. I was
previously making sure if nothing had been erased by looking at my oldest (!)
recording.. But now I know I can't trust that (thought it's still at least
a decent thing to check, since I obviously don't have my whole list of
recordings memorized).

"Matt Ackeret" wrote in message
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In article ,

I did find something else out recently. I had thought recordings were
deleted from bottom up when sorted by date. Just the other day I had
something like this:

Suggestion 3
Suggestion 2
Suggestion 1

and Suggestion 1 was the oldest recorded.. When I came back, only
Suggestion 1
was left.

I had that happen a few weeks ago to a recording of mine too.. I was
previously making sure if nothing had been erased by looking at my oldest
(!)
recording.. But now I know I can't trust that (thought it's still at
least
a decent thing to check, since I obviously don't have my whole list of
recordings memorized).

Were the programs different lengths and/or quality (because it affects size
on drive)? Maybe it just deleted only what was needed to make room for the
new recording. Anything with a yellow exclamation mark is available for
deletion. It looks like it chose to record a short recording that was
enough to make room for the new recording rather than deleting more than was
necessary.

Just guessing here as I have never seen this happen (I don't pay attention
to what suggestion is oldest).

On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 02:46:48 +0000, Matt Ackeret wrote:

I sometimes will delete things on the To Do list since I know I won't have
enough space.. If I do that too soon to when I leave, then something else
will show up in the To Do list and record anyway. I really wish I could
"lock" the To Do list, at least for the next 24 hours or so lets say.

Sounds like turning the TiVo off (unplugging it) would achieve the results
you want?

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Lenroc