Operation Manual

RECORDING WITH SKY
+
TV TO FIT YOUR LIFE 27
Keeping an eye on available disk space
Remember that because your Sky
+
box records onto its hard disk there is a
fi xed 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 the total disk space used by each
programme by pressing the information key when a programme is
highlighted.
To free up some disk space, you can copy recorded programmes to your
video or DVD recorder. See Copying recordings to video/DVD (page 37).
The disk space shown in your Planner is not affected by the Sky Anytime
on TV programmes stored on your Sky
+
box (see page 38).
Disk space warning
When you get your Sky
+
box, it is set up to automatically delete recordings
without warning if there’s not enough disk space for a new recording.
You can change this setting as follows:
1 Go to Services and select S k y
+
Setup.
2 Highlight Disk Space Management and use the arrows to choose the
setting you want;
Choose Warn if you want a warning that a programme is about to be
deleted.
Choose Manual if you never want Sky
+
to delete previous recordings;
recordings you’ve set up since will fail if there’s not enough space.
3 Select Save New Settings when you’re done.
total disk space available
With the Automatic option, recordings you have
already watched are deleted fi rst, followed by
unwatched recordings. Programmes marked Keep
are never deleted without your confi rmation.
in Warn and Manual modes,
a warning appears before you run out of space: