TV Cache missing some days

Rochford, Steve s.rochford at imperial.ac.uk
Thu Nov 17 03:44:49 PST 2016


> It's many years since I did any programming, I'm more at home in an engineering environment so wading through lines and lines of code doesn't come easily.  But having said that, I recently came across an issue where GIP was asking me if I wanted to delete some programmes as 
> they'd been downloaded 28 (or is it 30) days ago - I was delighted to find the subroutine that covered this and to "rem" it out! ;-)

I think I can help here - you don't need to comment out the code, you can just add a line to your options file (in Linux it's ~/.get_iplayer/options)

nopurge 1

that way when you next upgrade it won't change the behaviour.

Steve



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