Has anyone experienced or heard of the auto delete function not working? This has happened to me twice now in the past month or two on my HDR-1000S (when, I believe, the hard drive has filled up completely).
For example, this evening, the box failed to record the F1 qualifying highlights on Channel 4 HD, set via series record. There was no 'failed recording' listed in Recordings and the race highlights programme is still there in Planned recordings for tomorrow, i.e. the series record is still in effect. I also saw that it said 100% space used. The programme before the F1 was also set to record and it only recorded something like 46 out of 60 minutes. The same three programmes were listed in Deleting soon that had been there for the past two or three weeks, i.e. they had not been deleted automatically. (And yes, Auto Delete is set to On.)
So it seems clear that the auto delete isn't working, the hard drive filled up during a recording, stopped that recording and failed to record the next one. The same thing happened within the last month or two. At the time I deleted quite a lot of stuff and thought I would just wait and see if it happened again.
I know I can delete stuff manually but with such a big hard drive it can take a lot of button clicking to make much of a difference. The auto delete would be so much better, deleting the oldest recordings... if it actually worked.
Has this happened to anyone else, and is there any solution?
Edit: A failed recording for the F1 qualifying has now appeared in Most recent recordings.
I agree the periodic cull is an alternative, albeit a PITA in my opinion. The whole point of Auto Delete is that we shouldn't have to even think about deleting as we go or periodically. It should just work in the background, deleting when it needs to, without you necessarily even noticing.
