Recover permanently deleted shows before new recordings are made?

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I presume the answer is no.

This is NOT manually “permanently delete”-ing shows, but my TiVo nuked over 25% of my recordings when I tried to transfer BACK a ~3 gig recording with pytivo. Oh, and the transfer actually didn’t happen. It put it on the to do list for some reason even though nothing else was happening. So I deleted it from to do and rebooted to hopefully interrupt a “go delete stuff” operation.

I turned off suggestions, but will let other recordings happen. Since it was almost all old stuff, I don’t care TOO much about most of it, but if there is a way to recover in a computer, great.

I know the actual recordings are encrypted, I just don’t know if the directory structure, etc is known to fix that way.

 

What does that do? Does it recover shows?

 

again, it was never actually in the recently deleted folder. I was using that as an analogy because people would want to say “go into Recently Deleted” if I simply mentioned deleted shows.

it overestimates, but this was like 2 orders of magnitude too much, and it never actually even started the transfer.

The main thing I wanted to recover was a whole bunch of the last Letterman episodes.

 

Though that's what I was originally asking.. since people figured out expansion tools, etc., I thought they had to have figured something out about the filesystem..

(I bet someone knows, they just aren't saying..)

anyway, I've given it up.. sigh.. I already knew I could get *one* show I lost on dvd if I really really wanted.. but it was mostly the last *bunch* (not hundreds, but a few months!! in SD) of Letterman shows..

damn yeah I should keep until I delete everything... But then it gets so aggravating when one is 'near' full...

and in this case they were deleted BECAUSE OF A TIVO BUG. I had counted up things in RD & Suggestions and it was several times what I was transferring.. but it literally deleted *hundreds* of gigs of stuff.

 

yeah but that's my point.. I am not/wasn't trying to crack the *encryption*.. unless the directory structure itself is encrypted too.. (unlikely)..

again, I've given the entire idea up.. but just like you can scan computer hard drives of various OSes and "recover erased files", I thought this might be do-able too..

yeah I know Tivos use some kind of database weirdness, etc..

 

Do you know if anybody's looking into it?

guess I should go back to the old ffmpeg (and yes, change ALL of my recordings to keep until I delete -- can kmttg do that?) for now..

is it that ffmpeg is reporting the wrong size up the chain that then gets sent to the tivo as a huuuuuge size needed?

I had _guessed_ it was a Tivo bug because I'd run into tivo requiring WAY more (but not this much more) space than "needed".. like several times to 10x more space than the show I was going to transfer.. but it had gotten better in recent years and/or I had gotten used to it.. so I was living on the edge and it finally bit me.

 

Yeah, even with this bug, if the tivo only started deleting shows _as it received data_ (i.e. the show being transferred), then in theory it wouldn't've actually deleted too many shows..

i.e. even if in theory it said "this is a bajillion gigabytes" but only sent 1.5 GB, if it only deleted 1.5GB of space if needed.. no problem... Though even _ignoring_ this specific issue, it used to be worse than it is "normally" now.

Because I think I got complacent because I was able to transfer shows even with the slightly-incorrect 99% or 100% showing in the tivo space bar __because I knew there were many gigs of things in the recently deleted_ or suggestions.