Radio Download Skipped Even with --force

Budgie ajebay at errichel.co.uk
Mon Nov 4 18:03:49 EST 2013


On 04/11/13 22:58, Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer wrote:
> Budgie <ajebay at errichel.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Trying to download an episode of Classic Serial.  For reasons only they
>> Know, BBC has used the same title for episode 5 and episode 6.
>
> It's stopping because a file already exists... so temporarily rename teh
> file that's already been downloaded and try again.
>
> Here, I use a program I wrote, to issue GiP commands, and one of the things
> it does is assign a sequence-numbered filename to every fetch request, so no
> two files can ever have the same name.
>
>
>
Hi Jeremy,
OK I shall try again but I did use --force and this usually does what is 
intended!
Thanks for the suggestion.
Budgie



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