2 questions

1. You could go to Messages and Settings, Restart or Reset System, then Clear & delete everything.

But I'm not sure if you have to go through guided setup again if you do that, maybe not. I have never done it.

2. I'm not sure, some one else could probaly give a better answer.

 

Haha, sorry, I miss read you post.

If you have tivo software 9.4, you can hit the clear button when the recently deleted folder is highlighted and it will delete the entire group/folder.

The stuff in the recently deleted folder will not take away recording capacity. It will just record over it first. You know you are getting low on space when your programs marked to be deleted soon in yellow start getting recorded over before you delete them.

 

"Recently Deleted" is not like the Recyle Bin on your computer. All the items in the "Recently Deleted" folder are already marked for deletion the instant some space is needed for a new recording. It's more like an undelete feature on a computer that can recover deleted files.

 

This program (for Windoze) will do what you ask...

TiVoPlaylist.

 

Using the recently deleted folder is how you can determine how much space you have for new recordings. Roughly speaking, with 25 shows in that folder you have 25 available spots for new shows.

 

Don't worry about deleting stuff from the recently deleted folder.
Like Jim said, use it as your free space indicator. When it starts getting low, you know your Tivo is almost full.

 

This doesn't work for the Recently Deleted Folder. There is no way to mass delete it. Because there is no reason to. Ever.

FSI? Hmm, what a novel concept.

 

I was wondering the same thing about deleting everything at once from the recently deleted folder. And why is it you say "never" needs to be deleted? Since that folder filled up my picture is pixelated and there are dead sound spots etc. When I cleared that stupid "recently deleted" folder that problem stopped. So I guess there IS a reason to clear that folder. Back to the original question is there a way to do it all at once? Is there a way to NOT put deleted recordings in that folder?

Now my Tivo seems like a moron(MS)-computer, do you want to delete? (thats why I hit the button) are you sure you want to delete? (yes again nothing has changed in the last half a second) are you really positive that you are not a moron and hit delete by accident? (YES already go AWAY!) Very frustrating to say the least!

 

That's either a false correlation (coincidence), or you have a bad spot on your hard disk, and should replace it. It's not a reason to clear the recently deleted folder.

 

Agreed, what wmcbrine said.

 

False correlation? Lets see, I had the problem, I deleted all the "recently deleted" and the problem went away.

By the way it's a new hard drive.

 

The best you can do is go into the RD folder and hit the 'clear' button in rapid succession.

 

It's a false correlation because it's not the fact that the deleted items folder has anything in it that's causing the problem, it's the fact that you have a certain amount of stuff recorded. If you fill your TiVo with recordings and don't delete anything then you'll have the same problem but the Recently Deleted folder will be empty. It sounds like a bad spot on the hard drive (or a bad hard drive) to me as well. Just because it's new doesn't mean anything.

 

huh, I have the stock drive, recently deleted has shows in it and I have no pixellation. What is the correlation for that one example.

and in your scenario - why is a bad hard drive ruled out simply because it is new?

 

Others have covered the "bad disk/pixellation" issue, but as far as your questions, no & no. Can't do it all at once, and can't prevent deleted recordings from being put there.

You exaggerate for effect. If you press CLEAR while on the RD Folder list, it asks ONE time, are you sure?

 

There might not be a TiVo functionality reason to delete those files, but there could be a social reason. You take it from here.

 

Not sure (I don't delete shows from the RD folder) but I think you still have to acknowledge each one, as opposed to other locations.