How go I get get_iplayer working again after restoring my PC?

[J K.Eason]

> *From:* "Trevor Campbell Davis" <tcd at eur.co.uk>
> *To:* "Get iPlayer" <get_iplayer at lists.infradead.org>, 
> <shevek at shevek.co.uk>
> *Date:* Sat, 17 Sep 2011 12:17:47 +0100
> 
> (Apologies for having to use a reply to a previous post - I can't 
> seem to initiate a new post without a Suspicious Headers Moderator 
> Approval response. Why?)
> 
> Some may remember that I had a problem with specific files 
> appearing to download normally, but leaving only an empty file 
> envelope on the destination drive.
> 
> It had me puzzled for quite a while, until I discovered that my 
> inclusion of the whitespace command was the problem. Removing it 
> (and allowing iPlayer to name the files with underscores etc) 
> solved the issue, which arose only on some BBC TV downloads.
> 
> Has anyone else noticed this, or can anyone suggest the reason for 
> the problem?
> 
> Thanks folks (and to Shevek for his earlier help).
> 
> Trevor

Assuming this is under Windows, you'll also need to add fatfilename if
you use the whitespace command. If you don't, the filename will be
truncated at the first space and will fail to save correctly as you've
found.

Regards
       John (mail at john-eason.co.uk)