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Originally Posted by pandew  Thanks for this... have been using for a week or so now and it works well. Guide data is excellent- very comprehensive.
My only issue is that downloading the data seems to take quite some time- 30-45 minutes for 1 days data for the 7 free to air channels here. Not such a big issue though as have just set a scheduled task to run guidedigger and tvguidescheduler each time my computer starts- runs in background under different user.
In the readme there is something about changing guidedigger.exe to guidedigger.tkn if using automatic scheduling- this didn't work for me (maybe it's referring to something else) I just use run "guidedigger.exe" as a task and this works fine.
Many thanks for a fine piece of work. |
Thanks for the feedback.
30-45 minutes is much slower than I've seen before. Of course it depends on the speed of your internet connection, and a few other things as well. In fact the program uses Internet Explorer to download the data for you. If you have some condition that slows down IE (cache full is an example, or damaged winsock) the program slows down correspondingly.
I've disabled FTP in the current version until some minor issues are worked out. When enabled it will drastically speed up the downloads at least by a factor of 10.
As for changing guidedigger.exe to guidedigger.tkn - Some scheduling programs require you to enter an "argument" as well as the program executable. If this is the case, the argument you use is "guidedigger.tkn" which is a smaller file located in the program folder. You might need to put the full file path before it.