Undeletable program

[The maverick]

I have one programme that won't delete either from the TiVo menu or via the network from the PC, any suggestions?

[nick1austin]

I've seen that happen when there was a red circle next to the programme in Now Playing. A reboot fixed it.

[The maverick]

Had a few reboots since this first showed up.

[The maverick]

Still hoping for a way of deleting this program.

[mikethebike]

I had that once.
Can't remember what fixed it.
Don't think it was a reboot

[The maverick]

OK - let me know if it all comes flooding back!

thanks

Trevor

[mrtickle]

If you are confident on the commandline, you might try the EditTitle3 tcl script. It has a function to do a full delete on a recording (not a normal delete like TiVo and TiVoweb, where you can undelete the recording for as long as it hasn't been overwritten).

BEWARE: Just like TiVoweb, it opens a database connection to MFS, and so if TiVo sees that it doesn't exit cleanly, TiVo will 'panic' and instantly reboot. So don't do this during a recording! It's also very tempting to press "ctrl-c" to exit the script or to do that by accident; if you do that it's instant reboot, you must use (Q) for quit.

Get it from LJ's page: http://www.ljay.org.uk/tivoweb/tivo_lba48.html (Get LJ's own version).
Upload it via FTP to the tivo and make it executable with chmod +x as normal.
Use TiVoweb to get the MFS "FSid" of the recording that's causing the problem or use the (R) function if there's only 1 with that Series title in your Now Playing.
Eg if I wanted to delete Question Time from my TiVo, the telnet session would look like the below. In my example I didn't do the full delete. I also check the FSID first to make sure it's the right recording.

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~/tclscripts # ./EditTitle32-LJMHb.tcl

________________________________
(Q)uit / H(e)lp

List   : (R)ecordings
       : (D)eleted Programs
       : Recording (H)istory
       : (T)oDo
Info   : (C)hange Recording Info
       : Change ToDo (L)isting
       : (F)sid Info
       : Tivo (I)nfo
Delete : Recordin(g)
       : (A)ll History
       : (S)pecific History
       : (U)ndelete Recording
       : U(n)delete then Erase [LJ]

Enter Command:  ________________

f
Fsid Info :: Enter FSID:
8880110
      (press Enter to continue)

Title          : Question Time
Description    : (s2014e19) David Dimbleby chairs a debate from Gillingham in K
                 ent, where the panellists answering questions from the audienc
                 e include former Labour cabinet minister Tessa Jowell and Resp
                 ect MP George Galloway.
Episode        : 6th Feb 2014 - Gillingham
Actors:        : {David Dimbleby} {Tessa Jowell} {George Galloway}
Director:      :
Writer:        :
MovieYear      :
StartDate      : 16107
StopDate       : 16107
StartTime      : 81298
StopTime       : 84898
ExpirationDate : 16109
ExpirationTime : 81300
DeletionDate   :
DeletionTime   :
CancelDate     :
CancelReason   : 20
ErrorString    :
SelectionType  : 9
ShowType       :
State          : 4
Duration       : 3600
Score          : 5944
OriginalAirDate:
ThumbData      : 268566912
StreamFileSize : 1474560
IndexPath      : /Recording/Active/1:16107:81298:8880110 /Recording/DiskUsed/10
                 /8880110:1474560 /Recording/NowShowing/A:83892:18701:8880110 /
                 Recording/TmsId/EP100329188497:83892:18701:8880110 /Recording/
                 NoReRecord/329188497:NN:99999:08880110

________________________________
(Q)uit / H(e)lp

List   : (R)ecordings
       : (D)eleted Programs
       : Recording (H)istory
       : (T)oDo
Info   : (C)hange Recording Info
       : Change ToDo (L)isting
       : (F)sid Info
       : Tivo (I)nfo
Delete : Recordin(g)
       : (A)ll History
       : (S)pecific History
       : (U)ndelete Recording
       : U(n)delete then Erase [LJ]

Enter Command:  ________________
g
Delete :: Enter FSID:
8880110
Delete: 8880110 - Question Time
You will NOT be able to undelete this. Are You Sure? (y/n)
n
No Changes Made

________________________________
(Q)uit / H(e)lp

List   : (R)ecordings
       : (D)eleted Programs
       : Recording (H)istory
       : (T)oDo
Info   : (C)hange Recording Info
       : Change ToDo (L)isting
       : (F)sid Info
       : Tivo (I)nfo
Delete : Recordin(g)
       : (A)ll History
       : (S)pecific History
       : (U)ndelete Recording
       : U(n)delete then Erase [LJ]

Enter Command:  ________________
q                       <------ very important!
~/tclscripts #



[mikethebike]

OK - let me know if it all comes flooding back!

thanks
Trevor

Think I left it for a rainy day and perhaps after a reboot it was gone, but this was many reboots before it left, or maybe one day it was deletable.
Sorry not to be more help
I guess it was around for a few days, not weeks

[The maverick]

I have used telnet a few times, but can't wotk oput what I'm supposed to do here. at the momewnt I have a putty window and a prompt like this:

[TiVo [p0] ~]#

What next?