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<blockquote data-quote="SwissBuster" data-source="post: 282931" data-attributes="member: 78168">Work aroundI didn't find a way to prevent this, but I do have a method that means you only need to do this once... In the TV server config, under the TV channels tab, I created a new channel group called Favourites. I added my favoured channels to Favourites (under all channels, right mouse click on any TV channel and click add to group) and then sorted them into the order that I wanted. Once everthing is as I wanted it, I used the export function in the TV server config (under 'TV channels') to save all these channel settings. This creates a file (default name is export.xml) that you can use to import channel listing should you ever need to do a reinstall. I personally went through the 3000 channels listed in the 'Channels' listing and unclicked all those I did not want, although in theory you don't need to do this. This means that in the channel list or TV guide in MP when 'All channels' is selected, I only get the handful of channels I watch. Creating a 'favourites' group is useful because your channel listing in MP (and TV guide) can be set to view this list. Its a lot easier to sort the handful of channels under favourites than to sort them in the 1000s of channels under 'Channels'. For the future, when recanning the satellites, any new channels would be added to the bottom of the 'Channels' group, which is then quite painless to uncheck. Any channel updates are automatically updated. If there are new channels that I want to add to favourites, this is easy. Remember to export when you've made any changes!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SwissBuster, post: 282931, member: 78168"] [b]Work around[/b] I didn't find a way to prevent this, but I do have a method that means you only need to do this once... In the TV server config, under the TV channels tab, I created a new channel group called Favourites. I added my favoured channels to Favourites (under all channels, right mouse click on any TV channel and click add to group) and then sorted them into the order that I wanted. Once everthing is as I wanted it, I used the export function in the TV server config (under 'TV channels') to save all these channel settings. This creates a file (default name is export.xml) that you can use to import channel listing should you ever need to do a reinstall. I personally went through the 3000 channels listed in the 'Channels' listing and unclicked all those I did not want, although in theory you don't need to do this. This means that in the channel list or TV guide in MP when 'All channels' is selected, I only get the handful of channels I watch. Creating a 'favourites' group is useful because your channel listing in MP (and TV guide) can be set to view this list. Its a lot easier to sort the handful of channels under favourites than to sort them in the 1000s of channels under 'Channels'. For the future, when recanning the satellites, any new channels would be added to the bottom of the 'Channels' group, which is then quite painless to uncheck. Any channel updates are automatically updated. If there are new channels that I want to add to favourites, this is easy. Remember to export when you've made any changes! [/QUOTE]

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