2) When creating searches , you often end up with many recordings of the same programme episode due to some channels repeating them several times through the week on the same channel. Would there be a way of the search checking so that it does not create mulitple timers for the same programme which has the same episode number or identical prgramme description ?

Was the .mcl file created on a Mac? If so this may be due to having UNIX style line feeds. Make sure the end of each line has a windows style line feed, i.e. LF + CR.

Yes it is.

See Changelogs on Bob's site.

I reckon the best way to do this is to initially create the search from the EPG, then go into the timer list (default key is white), and page right until you get to the CT page.Paging left and right from CTs by name to Timers by name will show you the timers that have been created by a CT. You can then easily modify your CT to minimise the effect of repeat showings.
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Was the .mcl file created on a Mac? If so this may be due to having UNIX style line feeds. Make sure the end of each line has a windows style line feed, i.e. LF + CR.

does that capture it?

Almost. Windows end-of-line is CR+LF, not LF+CR. A Mac end-of-line is CR alone (at least it was prior to OSX), and a Unix end-of-line is LF alone.

So I would say:

"Was the .mcl file created on a Mac or Unix machine? If so this may be due to a different end-of-line convention. Make sure the file has a Windows-style end-of-line sequence, i.e. CR + LF"

With both 4.53 and 4.54a, I have the same problem with "favourites". I've checked by removing all other TAPs and rebooting, and it's still there. I reported this over on the 4.53 thread, posting date Thu Aug 03, 2006 9:58 pm - I'm not sure if there's anywhere more suitable I should have used.
http://forum.toppy.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5562&start=382

Symptom: all is fine if I view "all channels". However if I upload "My Favourites.mcl" containing a channel list, and then select it using Guide-Opt, it doesn't behave. In the guide, when I get to the bottom of the first screen, it scrolls up one row and "BBC ONE" appears in the bottom row. Any further scroll down wraps around to the top row (which is "BBC TWO") and down from there. So all channels other than will fit in the one screen are not visible.

In the original report I had a few teletext channels at the end, but I've got rid of those; My Favourites.mcl now contains



but the behaviour is still the same.

I'd appreciate if someone else could try to replicate this, and either confirm what I'm seeing, or else show that there's something weird about my particular box. I'm running Bastille firmware.

Regards,

Brian.

Almost. Windows end-of-line is CR+LF, not LF+CR. A Mac end-of-line is CR alone (at least it was prior to OSX), and a Unix end-of-line is LF alone.

So I would say:

"Was the .mcl file created on a Mac or Unix machine? If so this may be due to a different end-of-line convention. Make sure the file has a Windows-style end-of-line sequence, i.e. CR + LF"