# Why do I need to keep manually refreshing my EPG data?

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**Category:** General Discussions\
**Tags:** server-windows\
**Created:** [August 7, 2019, 8:11pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/why-do-i-need-to-keep-manually-refreshing-my-epg-data/443020 "2019-08-07T20:11:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![AzJazz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b782af/32.png) [@AzJazz](https://forums.plex.tv/u/AzJazz)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2019, 8:11pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/why-do-i-need-to-keep-manually-refreshing-my-epg-data/443020/1 "2019-08-07T20:11:43Z")

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Hi - I am located in the US. I believe that there aren’t any Plex changes requiring for me to use a new EPG source.

I’m on the latest Windows Plex Server build - I just updated a few minutes ago.

I have noticed that I now need to keep manually **Refresh guide data** in order for the next couple weeks of programs to get populated. I do have the **Perform refresh of program guide data** server setting configured to automatically update at 4:00 AM every morning.

Why doesn’t my EPG data automatically update?

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**Author:** ![darcilicious](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/darcilicious/32/3047_2.png) [@darcilicious](https://forums.plex.tv/u/darcilicious)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2019, 8:46pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/why-do-i-need-to-keep-manually-refreshing-my-epg-data/443020/2 "2019-08-07T20:46:23Z")

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> [@AzJazz](#):
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> Why doesn’t my EPG data automatically update?

It does but there’s a (known) bug so it’s not doing it correctly so yes, manually refreshing the guide every few days is needed.

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**Author:** ![AzJazz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b782af/32.png) [@AzJazz](https://forums.plex.tv/u/AzJazz)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2019, 12:24am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/why-do-i-need-to-keep-manually-refreshing-my-epg-data/443020/3 "2019-08-08T00:24:17Z")

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Thanks for the info, @darcilicious!

I guess I don’t need to report anything, then. I’m assuming that there isn’t a fix that I can apply in the meantime (other that manually updating)?

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**Author:** ![darcilicious](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/darcilicious/32/3047_2.png) [@darcilicious](https://forums.plex.tv/u/darcilicious)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2019, 12:38am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/why-do-i-need-to-keep-manually-refreshing-my-epg-data/443020/4 "2019-08-08T00:38:19Z")

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> [@AzJazz](#):
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> I’m assuming that there isn’t a fix that I can apply in the meantime (other that manually updating)?

Unfortunately no.

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**Author:** ![sa2000](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/sa2000/32/6922_2.png) [@sa2000](https://forums.plex.tv/u/sa2000)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2019, 1:35am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/why-do-i-need-to-keep-manually-refreshing-my-epg-data/443020/5 "2019-08-08T01:35:40Z")

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See [New EPG and release](https://forums.plex.tv/t/new-epg-and-release/425441/504)

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2019, 1:48am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/why-do-i-need-to-keep-manually-refreshing-my-epg-data/443020/6 "2019-11-06T01:48:00Z")

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