Yes, hello and a warm welcome.
Today I will tell you something about the Kla.TV downloader, about the update process.
How do I update the Kla.TV Downloader app from version v1.25 or lower to version v1.29 or higher?
How does it work? What needs to be considered? What has been updated?
The Kla.TV Downloader app 1.19 to 1.25 had a crucial problem.
The problem lay in the performance.
If you want to synchronize a lot of files, the system becomes very slow.
You can see this here in version V1.19. It takes a very long time to open the 26,000 files.
Systems with low performance could not cope with this.
And we have completely revised the Kla.TV Downloader.
There are a few things to bear in mind.
While this takes so long to load, I will briefly explain a mallet method in case the Kla.TV
downloader has completely hung up on a system.
We can do this here under Help, Show logs, get to a folder here, change here two levels higher and can simply rename the folder
"Kla.TV-Downloader Data" to "Kla.TV-Downloader Data.old" for example or delete it and then restart the app again and then
you start all over again and don't have to migrate anything.
But don't worry, no files will be deleted if you delete or rename this folder.
These are only the program settings and the files that have already been downloaded are then
taken into account, checked and synchronized again.
So this has nothing to do with the files, but just resetting all the program settings.
This shows the problems here very well and we see 24,000 files here.
That's too much for this computer.
As you can see, a lot of things didn't work out here.
It hung up and so on.
With the new version that we are now installing, this number is significantly reduced because it
packs entire weeks, months and years into one file.
Let me show you what this looks like after the update.
After the update it will look like this: you can see here, for example, that there are only 146 downloads and all these
months and years have been summarized here in one torrent.
A major disadvantage of the new version is that there are no longer any tags for hashtags to filter by.
There were these hashtags that you could filter here in Qubittorrent.
This option is no longer available in the newer version.
We are working on integrating this function directly into the Kla.TV downloader.
Stay tuned with us until this function is available again.
If you are happy with v1.19 to v1.25, you do not need to update if you are missing this feature, for example.
Now I will show you how to update the Kla.TV downloader.
To do this, we go to Help here for the old version, search for Update and it tells us
v1.19, there is a new version available, v1.29
This is the latest release today on December 28, 2024.
We click on Download Yes.
A website will open.
We download the latest version here under Assets.
Before you start the installation program again, I recommend that you stop the current version first.
I do this here by pressing Exit at the bottom of the toolbar and saying I want to end everything.
Then you also have to wait a while, depending on how heavily loaded the QBittorrent client is.
This may take a while until the QBittorrent is also closed.
We'll wait here briefly until it's finished.
Now it is finished and we are installing the new version.
Click here for more information.
Nevertheless, execute.
Click here on Next.
Then he says the folder already exists. We don't care. So we say yes.
Install. And the new version v1.29 will be installed.
Now we open the Kla.TV Downloader app again.
We have now installed V1.29.
And he still wants to install recommended settings here.
Here we say yes. That's what we want.
Click on Yes.
Now you can see that the QBittorrent client does not give any feedback and is completely frozen.
We ask for your patience here.
This is because he has to clean up the 24531 entries, or however many there are, he now has to replace them with new torrents.
Of course, this can take a while.
After a relatively long wait, QBittorrent Client has caught up and you can see here, it completely refills the
QBittorrent Client with these monthly, annual packages etc..
Something didn't work here in the migration.
Right-click and open the target directory.
And then I actually see here that he has created folders here that are incorrect.
I'll delete these folders from here.
Close the program again.
And continue here.
And you can see that it works again.
You can delete entries here at any time.
And it will also be synchronized from the Kla.TV downloader.
Now we can see here that it works so far.
We no longer have 24,000 entries here, or however many there were, but in the end we only have a few
hundred, which puts much less strain on the system.
And we have tags here by year, month etc. and unfortunately no longer by hashtags.
As I said, we would like to include this function here in the Kla.TV downloader in a future version.
The positive news is that it doesn't download everything from scratch, but instead checks the files that are
already on your hard disk to see if they already exist.
And if they already exist, they are not downloaded again.
Nevertheless, the program needs time to adjust everything and get everything under control again.
And I'm just saying, securing Kla.TV is not a sprint, it's a marathon.
So we let it run its course with the appropriate patience.
Further instructions on the Kla.TV downloader and the Kla.TV backup process can be
found at www.kla.tv/sichern and on wiki.kla.tv