can I populate the download_history without actualy downloading

[Jon Davies]

On 6 September 2016 at 14:30, Dave Widgery <dave.widgery at gmail.com> wrote:
>... due to a disk crash I have had to rebuild my system.

http://www.worldbackupday.com/en/


> one problem I have is the download_history file is missing a lot of
> entries of programs I have already downloaded.
[...]
> Is there a way to fool get_iplayer to add entries to the
> download_history without actually downloading the program.

you probably don't need to.  If get-iplayer tries to download a
programme that already exists on disk, it won't download it again.

Jon