[mythtv-users] X-Factor Scheduling Snafu

Gavin Hurlbut gjhurlbu at gmail.com
Fri Oct 21 00:50:33 UTC 2011


On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Michael T. Dean
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> No.  mythfilldatabase doesn't delete the listings until it downloads the
> new data, so if the download fails, it won't delete data.  Now, if you
> have a bad internet connection that silently corrupts the data you
> download, you may well lose all your listings.

That would be rather difficult too as the listing data is downloaded
gzipped, and uncompressing the gzipped data should detect errors in
the download.  Of course, there's likely some possibility anyways.


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