How Long is Delay To Permanently Delete?

I often permanently delete shows I know I'll never view again to keep shows I might want to retrieve from being flushed out of Recently Deleted too quickly. Usually I have no problem doing that immediately, so apparently TiVo doesn't enforce any kind of purposeful delay, but there may be bugs in the code. When occasionally a show won't permanently delete for some reason, rebooting seems to clear the problem. But I believe (as you say) that waiting also seems to fix it eventually. I think I've also seen instances where a program wouldn't delete properly even the first time (to move it to Recently Deleted).

 

Leave suggestions on, the recently deleted will almost always be empty within minutes

 

Unless something has recently changed tivo purges shows from RDF based on oldest recorded not oldest deleted. Accidentally delete an old show another family wanted to watch, or you decide to re-watch, and the show may go poof within minutes (or hours).

 

I have suggestions turned off, never delete anything opting to allow all recordings to simply age off.

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I don't record suggestions. I don't wait 5 minutes to delete every show. Every so often I'll delete all the shows in my RDF. It's not that rare that I'll delete an old show. It kind of defeats the purpose of RDF if a show I just deleted might get purged in an hour leaving a hundred other shows in the folder.