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Wednesday, October 25th, 2023 2:38 PM

Suggestion for an improvement in the firmware for the DVR receiver box.

I have a suggestion for an improvement in the DVR equipment firmware. Sometimes I will inadvertently delete a recording that I had no intention in deleting.

 

Currently, when I delete a recorded program, it is gone forever. I have deleted recorded programs by mistake, such as having a program highlighted & suddenly, the listing adds another recording at the top of the list, moving my selection for deletion down. I hit the delete button, but the wrong program was deleted.

 

My suggestion would be for your code writers to create a deleted file, such as those in my software programs on my PC such as Word, Excel, email, etc. where there is a deleted app that the deleted file gets sent to so that the list can be reviewed for final deletion, or restored back to where it was.

ACE - New Member

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5.2K Messages

1 year ago

Many have asked for this feature for years, and DIRECTV still hasn’t integrated it. I doubt it will ever truly be released.

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1 year ago

It would be easy to provide and optional/settable confirmation dialog, like other modern computers... you hit delete, and then a window pops up "are you sure", and to press a different button to confirm.

But, they need to get the bugs out of the software first, and stop the spurious resets first.

ACE - New Member

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1 year ago

@gregeusa 

Yeah. I was assuming that they'd just need to add a 'Recently Deleted' folder beside the Playlist folder as the DVRs run off Linux and modifying the file path for recordings wouldn't be too demanding.

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