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Hi, I got episodes showing twice, the thing is, they are twice in the collection and I am trying to separate them using playlists or nodes. Maybe what I am trying to do is impossible. Anyways.

Here is the set up and problem -

HDD1 (my collection) contains:

\John Shows\Show - John\TVSHOWS FOLDERS
\John Shows\Shows - Both - John\TVSHOWS FOLDERS

HDD2 (my girls collection) contains:

\Mary\Shows - Mary\TVSHOWS FOLDERS
\Mary\Shows - Both - Mary\TVSHOWS FOLDERS

The folders "Shows - Both - Mary" and "Shows - Both - John" are the shows we have in common. Both folders contain exactly the same thing.

I am using SMB and loaded both folders in HDD1 as source "Shows - John" and both folders in HDD2 as source "Shows - Mary"

I then created a node and loaded it to MQ5's main menu:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<node order="25" type="filter">
<label>Shows John</label>
<content>tvshows</content>
<match>one</match>
<icon>DefaultFolder.png</icon>
<rule field="path" operator="contains"><value>Shows - Both - John</value></rule>
<rule field="path" operator="contains"><value>Shows - John</value></rule>
</node>

Now when I choose the node and navigate to the episodes, each episode shows up twice. If I choose episode information, I see that one episode comes from the folder "Shows - Both - John" and the other comes from folder "Shows - Both - Mary". I don't understand why the files from folder "Shows - Both - Mary" show up under the "Shows John" node with the rules I've chosen.
I've also tried doing the same with playlists with the same results. Oddly enough, I have the same setup for our movies and so far everything seems to work fine there.

I also tried this set of rules to specifically remove Mary's files:

<match>all</match>
<rule field="path" operator="contains"><value>John</value>
</rule>
<rule field="path" operator="contains"><value>Shows</value>
</rule>
<rule field="path" operator="doesnotcontain"><value>Mary</value>
</rule>

No luck.

I also have a node created for all of Mary's shows with the same results.

I tried all this on a fresh/clean install loading only these sources/folders. Getting tired of erasing everything and starting everything over.

This may be a weird setup but it has its reasons. Firstly, we both want to have separate watched/unwatched status for our common shows. Secondly, I started out using different profiles for me and for her but the user change was really slow and sometimes the menus didn't load properly on user change.... Lastly, I am planning on making some nodes that would choose some files from both full collections, so having both collections loaded in one library seemed the way to go.

BTW, I am using Gotham 13.2.

I hope I put all the necessary info, if not, let me know what I missed. Any help will be appreciated, I am running out of hair to pull out!

Thanks for taking the time to read all this!
I'll keep trying to figure this out and if I do I'll update with what I did.
Desperately yours,
CSC

edit : Maybe I posted in the wrong forum, this might of been better in the general help and not in it's Linux subforum. If any OPs want to move this, feel free to.