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36 USING Sky+HD
Keeping an eye on available disk space
Remember that because your Sky+HD box records onto its hard disk there is a
fixed amount of storage space for recordings.
To see how much space each programme is using, highlight a programme in
your Planner and check the yellow part of the indicator bar. The bigger
the yellow part, the more space the programme is using.
You can check the exact percentage of disk space used for an individual
programme by pressing
i
when a programme is highlighted.
HD recordings take up more space than other recorded programmes.
To free up some disk space, you can copy recorded programmes to your
video or DVD recorder. See
Copying programmes to video/DVD
(page 46).
Disk space warning
When you get your Sky+HD box, it is set up to automatically delete recordings
without warning if there’s not enough disk space for a new recording. This
means the oldest, viewed programmes in your Planner will be deleted when
you run out of space to make sure future recordings can be made.
You can change this setting as follows:
1 Press
services
(for
Options
), press
down
then select the
Sky+ Setup
tab.
2 Highlight
Disk Space Management
and use the
left
/
right
arrow to choose;
Warning
if you want a warning that a programme is about to be deleted;
Manual
if you never want previous recordings to be deleted; future
recordings will fail if there’s not enough space.
3 Press
green
(
Save Settings
) when you’re done.
With the
Automatic
option, recordings you have already
watched are deleted first, followed by the oldest,
unwatched recordings. Programmes marked
Keep
are
never deleted without your confirmation.
in
Warning
and
Manual
modes,
a warning appears before you run out of space:
total disk space available
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