Do "new messages" take up recording space?

Stacy,

I'm an old member, but haven't posted for ages. I'm retired and my wife and I live on wheels, (in a fifth-wheel trailer,) traveling all the time. I can't connect to a phone line in 99% of the campgrounds I go to, and my Series 2 TiVo from DirecTV won't allow me to use our broadband or a cell phone to "call home."

We've brought this to shops a couple of times to let it dial in. (Last time was that big Daylight Savings Time SNAFU, where I thought it just had to have some update.)

After we get it back in our trailer, and after several days, it starts letting me know it needs to phone in, again. I try to make it a routine to go after those messages every few days to delete them because I've also seen mine hang a while before displaying the messages. So you aren't alone.

But, then, mine will periodically hang up in almost any operation. Sometimes when I have just deleted a program I watched, it takes minutes to get to the Now Showing menus, again. I just think in my case it's because I probably have so many shows that are fragmented, due to deleting some shows I've recorded ages ago, and then recording new stuff and not deleting it for ages.

I wish there was an operation that'd defragment the disk like I do on my PC periodically. Then I might know whether that hanging up is due to fragmentation, or maybe just the TiVo's electronics have a fit.

But to answer your question? Yes. the messages do take a little bit of disk space. Probably not a lot.

I hope you get to those messages once and for all. And once you've deleted them, try to get them out of your TiVo every few days. It won't quell the alerts popping up and annoying you. But it will just help
keep house" a bit more orderly.

Good Luck,
Gyro1949