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Each trading day, between 7:00am to 10:00am UTC, this live file will be downloaded and all new records (or updates to old records) will be saved with a timestamp reflecting when Quantopian downloaded the data.

Why is it downloaded multiple times? "load_metrics" shows that each dataset is accessed 4 times each morning, what is the reason for that?

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Good question. The system makes four attempts to fetch each file in case there are upload issues. Most often the issues are simply fetch delays. If you look at the typical load metrics for a live dataset, you may see 4 loads but only one will have an update (ie rows_added or delta_rows_added > 0). Is that what you are seeing?

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I'm seeing 0 each (that is expected) but that would explain the retries, thank you!