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+type: fix
+area: portals
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+Refreshing an Xtream source keeps your favorites, watch history, hidden
+categories and playback positions. Starting the same refresh twice at once —
+from the header and from the sources page — used to wipe them, because the
+second run saved an already-emptied catalog over the first run's copy.