Friday, March 19, 2010

drPodder Media Importer 0.1.5 released with backup/restore feature

The new version now support backup and restore of the database (feed structure and flags like new and old status). This will not backup the actual media files. These files must be downloaded by the webOS device (drPodder) after a restore or left alone.

BACKUP:
  1. Plug in the device via USB at select USB mode on device
  2. Backup the database file from the device to the PC via the menu [device]
  3. This will search the device and find the database file and ask for a place to back it up.
  4. After this you should be "safe" to webOS doctor the device or any other task that wipe out the application database for drPodder

RESTORE:
  1. Plug in the device via USB at select USB mode on device
  2. Restore the database file from the PC (BACKUP 3.) to the device via the menu [device]
  3. Select the backed-up database file from the PC
  4. This can flag all the episodes in the database as NOT downloaded (you should download from drPodder on the device). You can also let all the download flag be, and restore the database un-altered, this is normally done when the media files are at the same state when backed up.
  5. It will take a backup of the existing database file on the device (,same directory as the original database file,) and name it *.db.bak
  6. Now it copy and overwrite the database file used by drPodder
  7. SAFELY un-plug the USB device and startup drPodder

I have not tested drPodder intense with this new feature, but initial tests was a success.

0.1.5.0

-Trimming leading and trailing spaces from channel/directory name
-Prevent closing when processing
-Backup drPodder database file from device
-Restore drPodder database from backed-up file (set all downloaded flags to [false]). Existing device database will be renamed to ‘*.db.bak’ before a restore

Get it here

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