Existing podcasts

[Narrat]

Maybe it could be checked before the download starts, if a podcast-file is already existing in the download folder?

[manolomartinez]

Hi, just to make sure: these are podcasts that you have antecedently downloaded with another tool, right? It's not that Greg is downloading some podcasts twice?

Otherwise, I don't think that would be a good idea: you might want to delete your podcasts once you listen to them, and you wouldn't want Greg to download those again, for example.

[Narrat]

Yes. Those podcasts existed before and weren't downloaded with greg. But I invoked instead of check sync and it started to download the files (which is ok). But it ignored, that those files already existed in the location where it downloads the files (not so ok, imo). That's somewhat unnecessary :)

And well.. I can't quite follow your point in the second paragraph. Maybe I'm missing some greg feature?

[manolomartinez]

Oh, sorry, I misunderstood you. I thought you meant that greg should check whether a podcast already existed and refrain from downloading it if it did. You simply mean that greg should not overwrite existing files. Yes, that's surely the right thing to do :) I'm on it!

[manolomartinez]

The tip of the development branch doesn't overwrite existing files now. It also introduces custom download handlers in greg.conf. If you can, take a look at it, and let me know what you think.

[Narrat]

Nice and thanks :) I will look into it and write a comment then

Edit (some minutes later): Yes, it works. Existing files won't be overwritten

[manolomartinez]

You can now also use, e.g., wget to download files; enabling time-stamping you can instruct greg to completely avoid downloading a new copy of an existing file.

[Narrat]

Sounds even better :) I'll check it out