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Tuesday, June 27th, 2023 5:18 AM

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Downloading Watchlist as Linked FIle totally inaccurate/rubbish

I clicked the link on my Watchlist tab to 'download Linked File', it created a spreadsheet of the films BUT within my checking just the first 14 in the list, there were 5 (FIVE) film titles missing! These films ARE listed in my watchlist so why were they omitted from the download link file?

So much for the usefulness of this option, it is totally INACCURATE.

Why offer this option when again, as with my recent post that ordering my films watchlist by 'Alphabetical' also DOES NOT WORK, it is simply so poorly implemented as to be useless?

I am becoming more and more disenchanted with the utter lack of professionalism in maintaining a reasonable standard of accuracy of this site.

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1 year ago

@jim_bloggs  Thanks for the problem report.  This is likely related to your other post in that the titles will be in the file, but titles are currently exported via their original title.  You can confirm this by looking in the file for the numeric ID from the URL of the potentially missing title(s).  For example, the ID of The Shawshank Redemption (1994) is tt0111161.

Please let us know if this does not explain the issue. 

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1 year ago

@jim_bloggs We assumed the titles were just out of order, however, we now see in the other thread that the problem is larger here: 

I was going to add another point, namely that the download text names file of my Watchlist contained only 599 entries whereas the list comprises 3,900+! But again, I trust this will be corrected in the revised version.

This is likely a bandwidth issue and the download will be timing out before the whole file can download.  Possible solutions are to try at a different time of the day in case the route to your location was congested last time or to try again immediately after you encounter a truncated download. Finally, not likely the cause, but if you have a VPN installed, try disabling it or if you have an alternate connection try that (even perhaps a mobile phone hotspot as long as the connection speed is decent). 

Hope this helps. 

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1 year ago

Thank you once again Col, I did try a second time and it worked then, all 3,922 titles were included in the file download.

Kind regards