Recovering DVR Free Space?

[TalonDancer]

How can I speed up the recovery/availability of DVR free space after moving programs to an external hard drive?

Background: The DVR on our Hopper 3 was nearly full (90+%) so I moved several dozen movies to the EHD. The movies are gone but the DVR still shows as nearly full.

I know this has been asked before, but I couldn’t find the answer.

Thanks in advance

 

[charlesrshell]

How can I speed up the recovery/availability of DVR free space after moving programs to an external hard drive?

Background: The DVR on our Hopper 3 was nearly full (90+%) so I moved several dozen movies to the EHD. The movies are gone but the DVR still shows as nearly full.

I know this has been asked before, but I couldn’t find the answer.

Thanks in advance

Did you try a pull the cord reset?

 

[TalonDancer]

Did you try a pull the cord reset?

Thanks for the tip.

I'll give it a try after the remaining Smithsonian (free preview) On Demand Epic Yellowstone programs finish downloading. Hopefully there will be enough space.

 

[charlesrshell]

Thanks for the tip.

I'll give it a try after the remaining Smithsonian (free preview) On Demand Epic Yellowstone programs finish downloading. Hopefully there will be enough space.

Welcome. Let us know how goes it.

 

[TalonDancer]

The DVR was still 84% full after the power plug reboot BUT…
That may be the correct amount of DVR free space now, because I downloaded roughly 2GB of On Demand this AM after I moved the movies to the EHD yesterday PM. I’ll report back after we watch&delete the On Demand programs.

FWIW I should have paid more attention to how much disk space was used by the movies when I was moving them to the EHD. Unfortunately the DVR reports the space as a %. And the DVR->EHD transfer is reported as GB. So it isn’t obvious how many % of DVR will be freed up by transferring a given amount of GB.

 

[navychop]

I believe it takes a few days before the Hopper “empties the trash.”


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[JSheridan]

You can 'empty the trash' manually in the DVR/Trash/Options menu.

 

[navychop]

Seems to me that didn’t work. It removed the listings but did not recover the space immediately.

But it’s been a LONG time since I’ve tried it.


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[JSheridan]

Seems to me that didn’t work. It removed the listings but did not recover the space immediately.

But it’s been a LONG time since I’ve tried it.


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In my experience recovering, or even measuring the free space is an operation shrouded in mystery and widely varied results.

 

[ncted]

In my experience, emptying the trash will speed up recovery of space to hours instead of days.

 

[TalonDancer]

In my experience recovering, or even measuring the free space is an operation shrouded in mystery and widely varied results.

At least now I know it’s not a “personal problem”

FWIW when I transferred the movies to the EHD they simply appeared on the EHD, disappeared from the DVR and did NOT show up in the Trash. Even manually emptying the trash with DVR/Trash/Options/Delete did not show them or change the DVR %.

We have quite a few timers set, but haven’t watched/deleted much Dish stuff in quite awhile. So the DVR still being 84% full is reasonable. I’ll just free up some more space by moving a bunch more to the EHD, in case we run out of stuff to stream and get desperate for something to watch

 

[Jim5506]

With my H3, I immediately see a reduction of the % of fullness when I transfer or delete recordings.

MPEG4 recordings usually yield maybe 1% per hour of programming, thusly it takes many moves and/or deletions to make an impact on % fullness.