Hard Drive is 26% Full with 0 Recordings

[rjruby]

I have PTAT enable with no rentals or other programs recorded on one of my hoppers.

My DVR screen indicates that " Your Hard Drive is 26% Full with 0 Recordings"

Does the 26% represent the PTAT recording space?

Thanks,

Bob

 

[garys]

Your recordings and the PTAT are recorded within the same partition of the hard drive, I would think both are included in the total amount being used.

 

[rjruby]

I was under the assumption, maybe incorrectly, that PTAT had it's own space on the hard drive.

I see on the Dish support forum that the location for the PTAT recordings has flip-flopped a couple times.

https://support.dish.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=2124

I quess it finally ended up in the user portion of the hard drive.

 

[3HaloODST]

There is 1231GB of user space, 231GB of which can be occupied by PTAT. That's about 18-19%. Not sure where the other 10% went. Try waiting for updates to clear it out.

 

[charlesrshell]

How much is in the Delete folder? I would think that adds up too tell it is dropped off 48 hours later

 

[3HaloODST]

Yeah I'm not sure how they deal with the deletes. I do know that it will delete them first if you are running out of space. I seem to recall that it would make the percentage drop when you "delete" things even if they were still in the deleted recordings. Maybe they changed that in a more recent software update. I'll have to check that out next chance I get.

 

[Dudleydog73]

Since they added the Recycle Bin, the recordings are not "deleted" fully until they get wiped from the Recycle Bin. This allows someone who accidentally deletes a recording an opportunity to restore back to the user space if they wanted to.

 

[charlesrshell]

I just did a little test. One of my Hoppers says DVR is 24% full with 6 recordings. I deleted 2 one hour non PTAT HD satellite programs and the DVR still says 24% full with 4 recordings.

 

[3HaloODST]

I just did a little test. One of my Hoppers says DVR is 24% full with 6 recordings. I deleted 2 one hour non PTAT HD satellite programs and the DVR still says 24% full with 4 recordings.

Looks like they changed that behavior then. A few softwares ago I witnessed the percentage dropping.

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