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GIA not updating from August 30th #98

Closed willson556 closed 10 years ago

willson556 commented 10 years ago

From c.gar...@gmail.com on September 03, 2012 09:45:44

What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. Search for radio/tv content available on iPlayer from August 30 - eg. any BBC Prom after #60

  1. Results shown are out of date/not updated What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? Mac 10.6.8 Please provide any additional information below. a. GIA has always worked perfectly for me so this is a complete surprise! b. I have switched to the iPlayer+ app in the meantime which updates as normal, so confirms issue lies with GIA. c. Any help gratefully received.

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/get-iplayer-automator/issues/detail?id=98

willson556 commented 10 years ago

From c.gar...@gmail.com on September 03, 2012 01:46:57

GIA version is 1.3.7.1 (399)

willson556 commented 10 years ago

From david...@googlemail.com on September 03, 2012 06:15:20

I have had the same issues and am waiting for a response to my report

willson556 commented 10 years ago

From dinkypumpkin on September 03, 2012 06:18:11

Turn off Quick Caching in preferences. See issue #95 for explanation.

willson556 commented 10 years ago

From c.gar...@gmail.com on September 03, 2012 16:40:17

Thank you dinkypumpkin. Can you take over the customer service of British Telecom asap please?!

willson556 commented 10 years ago

From dinkypumpkin on September 04, 2012 02:23:23

The cache files used for Quick Caching began updating again last night (GMT). so you can switch it back on if you like.

If you suspect this problem is happening again, you can check the status of the cache files yourself. At command prompt in Terminal run:

curl -I http://tom-tech.com/get_iplayer/cache/tv.cache To check a specific cache file, you may substitute "tv.cache" with any of: ch4.cache, itv.cache, podcast.cache, radio.cache.

The output will look like:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2012 09:15:44 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.21 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.21 OpenSSL/0.9.8r DAV/2 PHP/5.3.8 with Suhosin-Patch Last-Modified: Tue, 04 Sep 2012 08:59:16 GMT ETag: "1d365e56-167c3c-4c8dc790b8100" Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 1473596 MS-Author-Via: DAV Content-Type: text/plain

The line beginning "Last-Modified:" will have the date and time (GMT) when the cache file was last updated.

willson556 commented 10 years ago

From c.gar...@gmail.com on September 04, 2012 04:00:30

Could you briefly explain what 'cache'-ing does, and what 'quick cache'-ing is used for?

Thanks.

willson556 commented 10 years ago

From dinkypumpkin on September 04, 2012 05:05:51

Caching: GIA queries the listing sources for each of the programme types enabled in "Items to Cache" in preferences to retrieve data for all programmes currently available for download. The data retrieved is stored (cached) in files on your local disk. When GIA performs a search it searches the data in the cache files. It would be much too slow to perform every search at source.

Quick Caching: GIA's developer runs a server where the above cache files are pre-created every half-hour or so. So instead of GIA having to retrieve data from source when it refreshes its cache, it only needs to download the files from that server. It's faster, particular for ITV and Channel 4 listings and BBC podcasts.

One note: As was covered as part of issue #83 , the Quick Caching files for BBC podcasts remain broken, so you can't use Quick Caching with GIA 1.4+ if those podcasts are part of your downloading diet. And if you're still on Snow Leopard with GIA 1.3.7.1, podcasts are partially broken even without Quick Caching. See issue #83 for how to fix GIA 1.3.7.1 for podcasts.

willson556 commented 10 years ago

From thomas.w...@me.com on October 02, 2012 16:50:38

Status: Duplicate
Mergedinto: 95