@dsayers2014 you're a legend mate, how you have come up with that is beyond me.
I've followed your instructions to import that pyo file to that location you said, done jedimaker and imported through the sources in epg importer and it has imported all of the events now
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My epg is back thanks to you, I can't thank you enough for creating this - a massive well done.
One more bit of advice moving forward please mate now this is all working, I'd like to do a back up now. Shall I go to menu, setup, software management, and then back up image or back up system settings or both? O is another way best?
I can then ftp this from my box back to my laptop for future.
Thanks again