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No matter what I do XBMC on my ATV1 only finds 64 movies when I have 110 in my shared directory. It used to work fine. I haven't changed any settings.
To remedy this I have:
Changed the scraper.
removed the shares.
add the shares as UPnP.
add them as SMB.
I delete them.
I restart.
I restart Windows 7.
Nothing seems to be working.
It finds them using UPnP but does not add a movie directory. When scraping, the progress bar stays at 0% then crashes.
What gives?
I'm using Dharma 10.1., ATV1, Windows 7.
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If it's in files view (and is smb) then it's a permissions issue.
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Permissions issue how? It finds 64 of my 110 movies. How would some of the movies in the same directory not be found??
How can I fix this?
Thanks for you help.
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xbmc.log with debug enable might shed some light on this.
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if you want help with your issue, may i suggest you drop the attitude..it does not make finding a solution come any faster.
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My guess is he posted to the wrong thread.
Permission problems occur when when the files are not owned by the entity requesting them. This is a typical issue with Windows, as in Windows there's 2 levels of permissions involved (filesystem + sharing) and it's not uncommon for it to screw things up. In particular, the "files inherit from folder" setting is often ignored.
A simple fix is usually to force permissions on the folder and on all things in the subfolder from within Windows (usually it's in the right click "Sharing" menu, but I've never used Win7 so no idea on that one).
Cheers,
Jonathan
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I just noticed that exiting file view and going back into file view, the number of available movies changes slightly. It now finds anywhere from 86-89 movies. This happens all within seconds of each other. Very strange behavior.
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Just wanted to stop in and apologize for my comment earlier it was out of line and to top it of i misread your post.
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If find this behaviour really strange and annoying. I figured if it was a permissions issue then I'll need to fix something on my computer. I actually reinstalled xbmc on my atv1 a few times first. I had to do a complete factory restore after trying to get remotehd installed properly - i installed nitotv and perian as per remotehd and it crashed it (totally bricked it) twice.
Since i couldn't figure out where the permissions problem was on my computer, I moved everything to another hard drive and added them via smb to xbmc. When it was first found, xbmc found 105 movies. After 20 minutes while watching one movie and returning back to the menu, it went right back to 64 movies!! I really can't believe or understand what could be causing this to happen. WTF is going on??
Thanks for any help.
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The videos that previously wouldn't show magically appeared after I removed all files that had a sfv, nfo, or nzb extensions within the folder where the video was held. I can only assume that the xbmc apple tv version is having problems parsing those non-video files which inadvertently caused the movie files to not appear.