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    Mcmad

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    Her indoors phoned me earlier today to say the 4000T had come up with an message that the maximum number of recording had been reached and that programmes would have to be deleted to allow new ones to be recorded.

    Is this really a thing as I'd assumed that as long as there was space on the hard disk then there wouldn't be an issue? Perhaps another reason why the ability to set up folders to organise the files on the hard disk would be an advantage, assuming the restriction is maximum number of files in a directory.

    | Wed 11 Apr 2018 19:05:22 #1 |
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    Have you switched it off and on again?

    | Wed 11 Apr 2018 19:22:52 #2 |
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    Mcmad - 2 hours ago  » 
    assuming the restriction is maximum number of files in a directory.

    The problem won't be maximum number of files in a directory (the maximum for a flat file system will be 4,294,967,295).

    | Wed 11 Apr 2018 21:11:48 #3 |
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    Martin Liddle - 58 minutes ago  » 

    Mcmad - 2 hours ago  » 
    assuming the restriction is maximum number of files in a directory.

    The problem won't be maximum number of files in a directory (the maximum for a flat file system will be 4,294,967,295).

    Source?

    | Wed 11 Apr 2018 22:10:33 #4 |
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    Is that exactly what the message was?

    Was she setting timers and got a message that you had reached the maximum number of recordings to bet set and to delete one of the other timers to enable it to be set?

    As far as I am aware there is no limit to the number of recordings on the disk apart from the obvious capacity of the disk. What does the disk pie chart say in the recordings list?

    | Thu 12 Apr 2018 7:07:45 #5 |
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    I agree, I would say that your hard disc is nearly full.
    That's why it wants you to delete some recordings in order to give you enough space to accommodate the new ones you want to put on it.
    If you go into your recording list, on the left hand side it will have Delete lit up click on there and it will show the recordings that's been watched and the oldest recordings it suggests you delete.
    Or you can delete some manually one by one, with the pie that Harters mentioned, and the amount of hours in SD, also in HD that's available alongside.
    don't forget that anything recorded in HD takes up a lot more disk than a S D recording.

    | Thu 12 Apr 2018 8:28:22 #6 |
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    BB - 10 hours ago  » 

    Martin Liddle - 58 minutes ago  » 

    Mcmad - 2 hours ago  » 
    assuming the restriction is maximum number of files in a directory.

    The problem won't be maximum number of files in a directory (the maximum for a flat file system will be 4,294,967,295).

    Source?

    https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/239146/linux-folder-size-limit

    | Thu 12 Apr 2018 8:52:58 #7 |
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    The 4000T doesn't use a flat file system ...

    | Thu 12 Apr 2018 17:08:30 #8 |
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    BB - 2 minutes ago  » 
    The 4000T doesn't use a flat file system ...

    I have had a 2TB 5000T full of recordings with file auto delete working.

    Many of them 30 minute series recordings.

    Absolutely no issues with file numbers only with lack of disk space.

    There was also a very large number of recording reservations.

    Guessing 16 bits will be used for recording reservation numbers, this equates to 65535 recording reservations.

    Like all recent Humax boxes (since the 2008 Foxsat-HD), the file system is Linux EXT3.

    http://www.linfo.org/ext3fs.html

    | Thu 12 Apr 2018 17:16:10 #9 |
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    BB - 4 hours ago  » 
    The 4000T doesn't use a flat file system ...

    I should have echoed your rather strange post.

    Source ??

    Apart from file encryption issues, afaik with the latest firmware all partitions and files can be identified on a Linux booted system.

    That does not mean the contents of the files will be understood by Linux.

    Machine specific encryption can make the video unusable on any other machine that does not have the required keys to decrypt the content.

    | Thu 12 Apr 2018 21:19:14 #10 |

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