Have you tried?

With all its faults--
If a burglar stole it I would buy another.
Which was what the OP asked

No you don't if you use File Manager and edit mode you can select as many files as you like by a single click for each one. One press of delete will delete them all in a queue.

What you can't do is select across multiple folders.

Thats exactly what I have done for ages. On a periodic basis when I switch the Foxsat HDR off.
File Manager
Edit Mode
Select all files I want to delete.(Usually a dozen or so)
Press Delete Red Button. Dustbin appears.
Press the off button on the remote.
Message comes up telling me it will switch off once all are deleted.
Job Done. Any recordings in progress carry on.

Its pretty stupid to be so pedantic over the queuing thing. No one would say deleting all files in a folder is queuing.

You cant set up a queue to delete several files while one is already being deleted, fact.

No, the box should do what the user wants, not be forced to do what some engineer wants.

Every other product Ive had with the exception of a samsung surround manages this perfectly.

I delete everything after Ive watched it so I dont have dozens of things to delete, just 2 or 3 things in different folders and it would be much quicker if we could queue.

How do you know if it does what you want or not unless you have tried it (or read the manual)?

on my samsung box recording is erased within 1 sec. also, when the playback is finished, user is asked if he wants to delete the programme immediately.

Id never touch another samsung product after my experience with the surround system.

Usually the middle tier tech products have good hardware but their usability is terrible.

Their £500 phone is apparently the same too.

Sony and JVC get it perfect.

That's a massive cop out to your original assertion,

You can and always have been able to build a delete queue.

You don't have to delete all the files in a folder, you can select any files in a folder for deletion (the same as you can do for copying). This includes the root folder containing all recordings not recorded using series recordings or moved to a user folder.

If you want more capability it takes seconds to create a temp folder and move content into it from any combination of folders (including moving multiple recordings).

Perhaps you should find out what the box really can do before posting totally stupid and inaccurate remarks.

Best advice to you is RTFM.

Thats some of the most ridiculous fanboism Ive ever seen.

You cannot queue files while they are deleting, fact.

Im fed up with your repeated nonsense, youre the 1st non anti bbc troll going on the ignore list.

I think the rest of the forum will be happy as I wont respond to your bilge any more.

Where does it say while a delete is in progress ? Just because you don't know how to do it. There's no reason why you cannot select two 5 hr recordings and add them to a queue to be deleted along with others if you wish.

To be fair, there's a difference between automatically queueing something, and offering the chance for the user to manually select sets of blocks of things to be done in one go. The latter is more like batch processing.

Printing under Windows is more like an automatic queue. People under a certain age will have never experienced the pain of only being able to print when the printer was free, and having the computer tied up while the (very slow!) printer printed. That's what the Humax does with its deletes - whereas Windows hides the fact that it's busy from the user, and lets them "print" as much as they want and move on - even though the actual printing may not happen for a few minutes.

Moving all the files into one folder on the Humax, selecting them all in file manager, and then selecting delete is rather like copying all the documents you want to print into a single document, and then printing that. It does let you print everything you want to in one go - but it's not a print queue!

Cheers,
David.

I think you may have misunderstood, moving the files is not normally required (this is a workaround to allow deletion of files hiding in multiple folders).. Generally very long recordings like sporting events will be in the drive root folder. In this case it's easy to simply select the ones you want to delete. In practice it's just as easy to delete a stack of episodes in a series folder leaving only the ones you have not seen.

If you only want to delete one (or possibly two shortish recordings) it's just as easy to delete them sequentially. For the contentious example setting up both to delete would have taken about 15 seconds to setup (less if they appeared next to each other in the media list).

Deleting a whole folder merely saves you the bother of identifying specific files in the folder as it queues the lot.

Damn those files - how dare they HIDE in folders!

Seriously, I know, I've used it - though normally I just delete after I've watched so it's not been a problem. It's only when the kids "grow out" of a programme I've recorded that I need to delete 25-50 episodes that I need to use the file manager.

My point was, what you can do may be better described as batch processing (batch deletion), rather than queueing. Maybe I'm making a distinction that doesn't exist, but I always thought queues could be added to, while batch jobs are usually set and forget. The Humax only allows the latter.

Cheers,
David.

Youve got it totally right and said it better than I did.

I dont see a reason why they cant be queued either or why deletion takes so long seeing as computer deletion is instant no matter what the size.

I believe it's partly due to the chosen file system.

Cheers,
David.

I have been more than happy with my HDR since buying one when they were first release. I have just upgraded the disk to a 1TB since the original was always running at 90+% full. I've not had a single issue with the box, the PQ is perfectly good in SD and positively pops in HD. Add to the above iPlayer and for me I can't see the need to pay for channels (yes I am mourning the loss of the GP but then I will just watch it on La Sexta (Spanish TV) with five live commentary)...
As for sky it's been so long since I've had it I can't comment on what the PQ is like but on finances alone I feel it was a good choice. After all why pay your TV license more than once a month if you don't have to (assuming you have more than 1 pack with sky). Happy freesatting...

I luvs my Humax! I hatez Sky!

Flyer 10.
Of all your posts there are not many you could call helpful. I bet there are a lot on this site that would pay to see you go to Sky, Please get a more comfortable seat then you won't be such a pain in the ass.

No, I would not buy the Humax again, as I think my Samsung is a big improvement. OK, it does have a couple of faults, but I still prefer it over the Humax. As for $ky, the only thing I miss is $ky News HD. Roll on when BBC news goes HD early next year.

If theres wasnt such stupid fanboism excusing all faults, 95% of the complaining would have stopped.

Either that or they actually fix the box.

As for sky, I wouldnt use them even if you had a whip around and you think customers should just meekly keep quiet instead of trying to get their product fixed?

Would I buy a Humax again? No, never will that company get another penny from me.
I'm really happy now I've upgraded to the Echostar.

1st non anti bbc troll
Aah that takes me back. i used to watch it as a kid after the magic roundabout.

Have had my Foxsat since day one, can't really fault the machine, although the time now taken to load the EPG is a tad annoying, but otherwise its fine.

However I hate the remote control, its not intuitive and not very pleasant to hold, the metallic central disc annoys me and along with the OK button it seems to 'double press' when selecting programmes from the EPG, causing you to instantly cancel the programme you have just selected.

It still looks modern and the display looks good as does the blue/red operation LED.

Would I but another? Yes but only if the remote is improved, which possibly has already happened.