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<blockquote data-quote="Anthony Vaughan" data-source="post: 1283277" data-attributes="member: 153283">I have been looking again at the issue of needing to change the EPG when 'last minute' EPG changes occur. The showing of the 'Oprah meets Meghan and Harry' was not announced until fairly late the day before it was shown and I was under sentence of death if I didn't manage to record that for my better half<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />.I thought I would look again at a better way to make such changes. You may remember that I do not want to enable the 'Always try to update existing entries' option because I have other processes that amend the title and description fields as well as extracting episode information and placing them in the episode fields. Incidentally, this is why I was installing MP 1.27 on my development machine, to test what to do, and gave rise to the error log trying to install MP1.I found that when I removed the programs around the time of the Oprah broadcast, MP automatically filled in the gaps (because I had EPG grabbing while idle set ON and 'Always try to fill holes set ON').This seems to me to be a good solution because it allows me to amend a program's description (when start and end times don't change) or remove programs in the affected time slots (when there are wholesale changes) and let MP do the rest.[ATTACH=full]208252[/ATTACH]Previously I had been trying to do all sorts of clever things with preceding and following programs - which was really way too complex. Now I can either:a) delete entries and let MP sort them out;b) delete/amend surrounding programs to align the start and end times and change the existing program title/times.Tony</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Anthony Vaughan, post: 1283277, member: 153283"] I have been looking again at the issue of needing to change the EPG when 'last minute' EPG changes occur. The showing of the 'Oprah meets Meghan and Harry' was not announced until fairly late the day before it was shown and I was under sentence of death if I didn't manage to record that for my better half;). I thought I would look again at a better way to make such changes. You may remember that I do not want to enable the 'Always try to update existing entries' option because I have other processes that amend the title and description fields as well as extracting episode information and placing them in the episode fields. Incidentally, this is why I was installing MP 1.27 on my development machine, to test what to do, and gave rise to the error log trying to install MP1. I found that when I removed the programs around the time of the Oprah broadcast, MP automatically filled in the gaps (because I had EPG grabbing while idle set ON and 'Always try to fill holes set ON'). This seems to me to be a good solution because it allows me to amend a program's description (when start and end times don't change) or remove programs in the affected time slots (when there are wholesale changes) and let MP do the rest. [ATTACH type="full"]208252[/ATTACH] Previously I had been trying to do all sorts of clever things with preceding and following programs - which was really way too complex. Now I can either: a) delete entries and let MP sort them out; b) delete/amend surrounding programs to align the start and end times and change the existing program title/times. Tony [/QUOTE]

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