Sorry was unable to provide support while i was on vacation for the holiday (GPRS cell phone speed is not fast enough to do anything online)
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Originally Posted by Cal
1. update the first post. I see the file there is much older then the one a couple pages back. I don't know what one I had. I know I've updated it since the first one but I'm not sure if I was using the newest one.
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I can not update the first post my self because this post is created and maintained by the people at snapstream who administrator the plug ins. I can send them an official release but have not done that yet because there a couple of thing that are not finished in the product (mainly the help which I have to reconstruct because the sources file were only on a laptop whose hard drive went bad and a couple of other clean up with the download manager )
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Originally Posted by Cal
2. put version numbers in your zip name. It would make it simpler.
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The installer has a version as a part of the file information. (right click on the msi file then on the summary tab the reversion number currently it is {09F9D380-BA50-4119-8FD7-4281318AEA17} (this is a Microsoft created number that has to changes with each release)
There is also a version info as a part of all of the exe and dll files that are installed. right click on a file and in the details or version tab is the file version currently the main exe is 2.3.976.12
you can also get the version info from inside the program (go to help - then click on about (or you can press Ctrl-A)) currently it is 2.3.976.12
With all of this version I was trying not to make it a part of the file name because this would have to be a manual process and be something that I would forget to do.
I have added to my signature a link to the most recent version of the program
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Originally Posted by Cal
3. keep a record of file names that podcatcher has already downloaded so they are not downloaded again automatically by podcatcher of something screws up with the feed. This would prevent what happened to me last night.
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this was done in version 2. look at the download based on option in the feed setup
Your main problem with the program downloading all the shows over is actually more of a problem with the feed provider. I think what happened is they remove the shows that were downloaded from the feed. then your btv podcatcher updated and saw the show removed so it removed the show from its memory to save space on the hard drive and in the file that holds the feed information. The feed then re added the shows. Then btv podcatcher updated and saw the show noticed it was not found in the feed file then it process that show as new and it might downloaded it based on the feed setup.
Here are Several feed options to look at when setting up or modifying a feed in the feed setup form to prevent this from occuring
Remove items when not found in the feed refresh: when this is set to yes it will not remove a show information when a feed is updated and the show is not found on the feed. Setting this to no would have not removed the old shows from the file that has the feed information and the feed
maximum number download to this setting tell the program at the time of refreshing the feed how many show from that feed it can download at a time if this was set to 5 instead of downloading all of the episodes from the feed it would have only gotten the 5 of them.
Here what I would do in the mean time till you get the next version that may or may not fix this issue (see note at end of this post)
I would leave my download based on option alone (most of mine are set to GUID but a couple of feeds that act up regular I do set based on file name (ask a ninja is one of those feed))
I then set the maximum number download to be a relevant number (most of mine are set between 3 to 7 depending on the feeds release schedule)
then I would change the Remove items when not found in the feed refresh to no.
An update I am working on for the program will notice if the program does not see any show on the feed during a refresh it will always leave all the old show on the feed. As I do not have the feed at the each time of refresh I can not confirm this will fix the issue but it might help