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Could someone help me understand the order of scraping.

What I think happens is this, more or less:
1. XBMC looks at the movie directory, checks the name of the movie.
2. XBMC checks whether fanart, posters etc, exists
3. If it does not exist, then it accesses IMDB and pulls down the artwork.
4. Else it uses the artwork that is in place.

Is this roughly right ?

If XBMC uses its own scraper to pull down the artwork, does it store the information in the movie directory ?

Also, when XBMC tells us "Downloading Movie Information", that is not necessarily the case; in so far as it is not necessarily "downloading" this information off the internet?

fishypops Wrote:If XBMC uses its own scraper to pull down the artwork, does it store the information in the movie directory ?

I'm not sure about the order, but I know that when XBMC scrapes Movies it doesn't store the images with the movies.

Right. We do not store the downloaded meta and images to the movie directory unless you exported it to separated files manually.