Delete Capabilities in MBT

[emmcd 6]

Just a feature idea I thought I'd throw out there.  Since i use MB for watching tv shows and movies, for all the tv shows that I don't keep after watching once, i usually delete through MBC.  I went searching through the threads and didn't see anything on it (if I missed it sorry about that!) so I figured I'd throw it out here as an eventual enhancement idea for MBT.

 

Thanks!

[DGMayor 90]

I have a feeling the answer will be no, but I'd like to second this request.  It's pretty much the main feature that will keep me in MBC as I use it daily.

[Luke 42077]

the answer isn't no. but when that might move up to the top of the list, i cannot say.

[Koleckai Silvestri 1154]

Great feature for those that would use it. Hopefully an option that can be turned off for those of us who don't want people deleting shows. We have that problem now on our DVR. Someone watches an episode, it is marked watched and they delete it before everyone else had a chance to see it.

[DGMayor 90]

the answer isn't no. but when that might move up to the top of the list, i cannot say.

 

That's fair.  I was thinking that if you wanted to keep it more behind the scenes so people wouldn't accidentally delete files and so you didn't have to worry about adding it to the UI, you could always have like Control-D trigger a window to pop up asking for confirmation of delete.  Then users can just map Control-D on their remotes (or if they are keyboard users, they have it already).

[Brendon 119]

How would that work with server permissions? I have all my hdd's set to read only on every profile except mine to prevent the kids/guests deleting anything, hopefully it would respect share permissions/access.

[gcw07 347]

How would that work with server permissions? I have all my hdd's set to read only on every profile except mine to prevent the kids/guests deleting anything, hopefully it would respect share permissions/access.

If it was set to read only, then even if the client attempted to delete the file, it wouldn't be able to.

[ebr 16169]

If it was set to read only, then even if the client attempted to delete the file, it wouldn't be able to.

 

Only if the server were running under such an account (from a windows perspective).

[gcw07 347]

Only if the server were running under such an account (from a windows perspective).

Ah, see my server is running Linux. If I set something to read only, it takes changing the permissions on the file before it will allow you to delete it.

[ebr 16169]

Ah, see my server is running Linux. If I set something to read only, it takes changing the permissions on the file before it will allow you to delete it.

 

I just wanted to be sure the OP didn't think that the user profile in use on the client or even the windows user on the client would have any impact on this.  Since the server application is the one doing the deleting, it would be the permissions of the user under which the server application that is running that would matter.