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Note down exactly how your tvshows are laid out inside the D:\Videos\TV folder.
XBMC expects the layout I specified in my post above: D:\Videos\TV\<showname>\[other optional subfolders\]<episodefiles that match the layouts we search for>
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I'll have to check that when I get home tonight.
I think it is just D:\video\tv\Dexter\Season 1\*name of episode*.s01e02.avi
Is that too many levels of folders? At this point I'm considering the option of putting all TV shows into a single folder with no organization. D:\TV\*epidode of random show*
I don't understand why my error message would say unable to contact remote server. That sounds like a connection issue, not a file system issue.
If it's not, I'd suggest the error message be altered to avoid confusion in the future. Ideally it would say something more vague "no results found from remote server," if indeed it did connect, but came back with nothing.
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It also seems reasonable that the scraper should have an option to only look at the file name, not the folder path. Who cares if I named my video folder "awesome videos" with a subfolder of "less awesome" and yet another one inside that of "mediocre videos"?
And also, if XBMC is able to "clean" my file names to find the important parts (e.g. reducing EpisodeTitle720pAACaudio, to just EpisodeTitle), couldn't the scraper just search based on XBMC's automatically-cleaned-up title? It seems that might work better.
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I'm both happy and sorry to report that it just suddenly started working, and I hadn't done anything. I believe the video folder was already set to nothing, and the tv folder was already set to tv. I wish I could report I figured out what was wrong.
Maybe it was a tvdb website issue? Or maybe my Eden just needed to be restarted form some setting to kick in... Thanks for your help!
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FYI, I believe this problem was caused by Peerblock preventing me from reaching the TVDB server. Just FYI.