[thrak76]

After participating in a thread recently regarding XBMC's handling of the export process of the image cache, I'll submit a request for options in the export as separate files action.

It would be handy to have options to not include artwork in the export process, as it often duplicates what users already have in their directories if they are Artwork Downloader addon users. XBMC will append -art.xxx to the video file name and add it to the directory, duplicating the poster.jpg, logo.png, etc... that are already local.
Additionally, an option to export the thumbnail cache with a different syntax would be handy as well. Such as "export art with movie-art.xxx naming convention", or with "artwork downloader naming convention". That's not an elegant verbiage, obviously, but hopefully the idea is conveyed.

Also, there has been requests in the past for "export from here" options in the context menu. I'd like to put forth this request again. Below are some references to requests in the recent past.

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=170415
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=171674
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=160203

Thanks!

[Dilligaf]

+1

[brazen1]

+1

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=193598

[booker88]

Also, there has been requests in the past for "export from here" options in the context menu.

Massive +1 as well please.

[mikebzh44]

Could be cool but I think that XBMC should be able to load <moviename>-artwork.<ext> when scaning sources :

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=182466

So having <moviename>-discart.png or <moviename>-logo.png make sense when this feature will be added (I hope that Helix will implement it) so Artwork Downloader "Use local files" option won't be needed anymore.

[aptalca]

I never understood why the core export function and the artwork downloader addon (written and maintained by team members) use different naming conventions.

It is sooo confusing.

I always exported my media before and had never used the artwork downloader, but PTVL addon was not finding my fanart. It was suggested I use artwork downloader. After I did, I noticed I had all these duplicate images with different filenames, and to make matters worse, even though I had "overwrite" turned off in artwork downloader settings, it still replaced ALL of my fanart in my library with the ones it downloaded. It didn't even register that I had local files already and my library was pointing to local files.