My Tablo woes are by no means over. Yesterday I finally took the Tablo hard drive out of its cozy nest, brought it down to my PC, ran some diagnostics and SMART analyses on the HDD and it passed all those. Then I deleted all partitions on the Tablo.
Actual sequence of events:
deleted whatever partitions was on the Tablo HDD
created a Windows NTFS partition
Ran Crystal Disk analyses
deleted Windows partition
when I reconnected the HDD to the Tablo it asked for permission to FORMAT the drive, which I gave and the Tablo performed.
Then I spent some time to make sure that the majority of the shows we might want to record were scheduled to record.
Today… I checked and there were bunches of purportedly recorded shows - but they were from dates preceding yesterday when I formatted the HDD. And they all yielded “Player Errors”
when I tried to watch them.
So, where did Tablo find these? how?? Who is is charge here?
I swear, if the YouTube TV interface wasn’t so clunky, I’d be done with this Tablo.
If you are going to wipe the drive, you really need to do a factory reset as well. Otherwise, as @sgnadeau stated, the internal storage is going to remember all your old recordings (and be unable to play any of them).
Indeed, I had Tablo open on my Windows PC and it showed no recordings of any nature. So then I checked and it had a few scheduled recordings left over from whatever malaise befoell it and I added the others I thought would make a good starting point.
It now has 3 or so recordings that seems fresh and in fact on the drive.
Will have to wait until tomorrow to see.
Incidentally, I have the older, 4-tuner Tablo, not a Tablo Quad which I believe is a newer, cloud-enabled DVR?
I believe you mis read/understood. Deleting recording via the app? The “physical” recordings are on the the drive. References, DB data, to the recordings are on/in the tablo.
You wiped away the recordings, but the DB doesn’t know that. Supposedly it’ll clean it’s self up - maybe. @snowcat suggestion of a factory reset would completely wipeout any information the tablo device had retained… including references to ghost recordings.
Unless your tablo device is just screwed up, which is probably why all this started.
The database is stored directly on the Tablo itself, not the USB HDD. So if you formatted your HDD using a computer, then you need to factory reset to your Tablo to get rid of all the orphaned recordings. This is why you are seeing the prior recordings still listed.
The link below is how to factory reset the OG Tablo (not the newer Quad).
Well, I now have a total of 6 recordings showing, all recorded since last night, all watchable, so here’s hoping that my Tablo and I have reached a new level of understanding.
