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<blockquote data-quote="clarkebelt" data-source="post: 1087666" data-attributes="member: 148422">Can I ask, WHY? I'm not asking why this happens, you have explained that to me.&nbsp; What I am trying to figure out is under what conditions this sort of operation would make any sense.&nbsp; Under what circumstances would it be valid for data from a channel on a completely different satellite, on a different frequency and in a different band, to overwrite an already scanned channel's data?&nbsp; I get it that this is the way the program works, but in my mind I cannot conceive of any logical reason it should work this way.I understand that the way Free-To-Air satellite in Europe works is quite different from the way it works in North America, but even so, would this even be a valid way to do things over there?&nbsp; And are we in North America doomed to never have a version of MediaPortal that will scan a satellite without destroying previously stored channels?&nbsp; It's hard to fully describe the sinking feeling that occurs in the pit of my stomach because I finally got all my stored channels the way I wanted them, only to have them overwritten because I scanned another satellite.Personally I wish there was some way to access whatever database holds the channel list directly (without using the TV Server Configuration program) because then at least I could take &quot;snapshots&quot; of the raw data, and maybe find a way to quickly restore overwritten channels after a scan.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="clarkebelt, post: 1087666, member: 148422"] Can I ask, WHY? I'm not asking why this happens, you have explained that to me. What I am trying to figure out is under what conditions this sort of operation would make any sense. Under what circumstances would it be valid for data from a channel on a completely different satellite, on a different frequency and in a different band, to overwrite an already scanned channel's data? I get it that this is the way the program works, but in my mind I cannot conceive of any logical reason it [I]should[/I] work this way. I understand that the way Free-To-Air satellite in Europe works is quite different from the way it works in North America, but even so, would this even be a valid way to do things over there? And are we in North America doomed to never have a version of MediaPortal that will scan a satellite without destroying previously stored channels? It's hard to fully describe the sinking feeling that occurs in the pit of my stomach because I finally got all my stored channels the way I wanted them, only to have them overwritten because I scanned another satellite. Personally I wish there was some way to access whatever database holds the channel list directly (without using the TV Server Configuration program) because then at least I could take "snapshots" of the raw data, and maybe find a way to quickly restore overwritten channels after a scan. [/QUOTE]

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