Clearing Recently Deleted Folder

[trader224@yahoo.]

The "Recently Deleted" folder is a one-at-a-time delete process. If I blow out 45 shows, they move into this folder, which requires another one by one deletion process. Is there a quick way to clear out the dump?

[MikeMar]

Why do you need to delete this? Even if you delete them the shows will remail on the drive until they get overwritten

[sundevil67]

I would like to know how to do this as well. There is good reason - scrolling through these items is PAINFUL - it is so slow I can't even bear to do it. The problem is that it just keeps too many programs in there. If I want to recover something I recorded TODAY - I have to wade through programs from a week ago. Then, let's say I want to recover 2 programs that I accidentally deleted TODAY. After I recover one program, it shuffles me all the way back to the beginning, back at the programs from last week. I then have to repeat the whole process to recover the 2nd program. Ridiculous! If anyone knows a better way to do this, or a way to keep this folder clean, I want to hear it!

[dirtypacman]

Your just lucky to have the dam folder now go home and re-organize your SP's so you dont have this problem... lol

[HookedOnTivo]

I agree. The Recently Deleted Folder needs to be sortable like the Now Playing list.

I would like to know how to do this as well. There is good reason - scrolling through these items is PAINFUL - it is so slow I can't even bear to do it. The problem is that it just keeps too many programs in there. If I want to recover something I recorded TODAY - I have to wade through programs from a week ago. Then, let's say I want to recover 2 programs that I accidentally deleted TODAY. After I recover one program, it shuffles me all the way back to the beginning, back at the programs from last week. I then have to repeat the whole process to recover the 2nd program. Ridiculous! If anyone knows a better way to do this, or a way to keep this folder clean, I want to hear it!

[Dan203]

I would like to know how to do this as well. There is good reason - scrolling through these items is PAINFUL - it is so slow I can't even bear to do it. The problem is that it just keeps too many programs in there. If I want to recover something I recorded TODAY - I have to wade through programs from a week ago.

Just hit the advance to end button (->) and it will jump you right to the bottom of the list.

Dan

[clemon79]

Just hit the advance to end button (->) and it will jump you right to the bottom of the list.
Dan

Thanks for this. It's a decent workaround, but it would still make a boatload more sense if there was a sticky way to sort it, or if it simply did it most-recent-first like the Now Playing list does. Especially considering 99% of the time you are more interested in recovering the recent deletions than you are the older stuff.

(And there's no excuse, seeing as the Enter key does absolutely nothing on that screen.)

[classicsat]

Once you get going and your DVR fills up, the RD folder will get emptied. Mine empties itself and is empty most of the time.

[svhawk]

I can delete TIVO files that move to this folder but if I copy a .mpg file from my computer with a .mpg file type I can delete it and it moves into the deleted items folder but then I cannot permanately delete it...

any one know why?

[Markell]

You just need to get more season passes for daily shows. My "recently deleted" folder rarely holds more than 2 shows in it, and never more than 8, thanks to Starting Over (on 2 networks!), Dr. Phil, the Tonight Show, etc.

Would this solve your problem? :cool:

[TiVoEvan74]

Yeah, scrolling through 45 entries would be a nuisance. Do you need to do this often? Is someone in the household deleting things for kicks, messing with you? :)

Yes, it should be sortable... I'm amazed, though, that you have so many shows in there. You must have lots of free space... we only get a couple of deleted shows at most in there and that's almost always right after we've deleted. By next day, they've generally vanished.

Hope some of the tips here help you!

[TiVoEvan74]

Oh, just came across this again... doesn't pressing the channel down button work, too? So that you can scroll through them a screen at a time?

Still, alphabetizing the list would make sense as an option!

[weymo]

I'm a crazed freak about emptying recycle bins...think it is a psychological thing. When I first got the Recently Deleted folder, it stayed pretty clean...but now that we're in the off season, I have 40+ items in there all the time...and I don't seem to get but maybe one or two picks a day. It may be my imagination, but it seems like I'd get more picks if that folder were empty.
What I would like is (and would seem logical to me) is from Now Playing, highlight Recently Deleted, press Clear to empty. Alas, years of Windows desktop is coming through.

[MikeMar]

the whole thing is that the recently deleted folder has ALWAYS been there, just now you can see it and recover stuff.

[TiVoEvan74]

weymo, I sympathize... I've been a Mac user for years (well decades now) and the bulging trash can always triggered a Pavlovian response in me--Empty Trash!

Now that they've gone metallic see through trash (as opposed to Oscar the Grinch solid can which many of us always colored red), white waste paper in it triggers the same response.

For some reason, though, I can readily ignore the TiVo one... especially as it functions as a failsafe.

[bud8man]

it would seem the problem is not the delete feature...but that you are not recording enough! I had to add a 250 gig external to my network to store all of the shows we were keeping (missed watching a bunch of prime times from the previous season so they are ready for summer watching).
suggestions and delete folders hold no more than 2 or 3 shows on average...
I use wish lists to keep the TiVo full of potentially good to watch stuff, using keywords, movies, and stuff.

[mrjam2jab]

The only problem i have with the RD folder....is that it doesnt keep stuff long enough...:-P

If i dont recover the show in that sitting...its gone the next time i look... :-)