2014-07-02, 11:00
I've recently updated to Gotham and am having trouble adjusting but it has been working fine for the last four or five weeks. Tonight, I added a half dozen movies in the normal way I usually do and started XBMC. I have it set to update at startup. It didn't. There was nothing in the "recently added" section in the home menu. I looked for, and found, the 'Update Library' option in the pop-out side menu. It didn't.
After a lot of clicking around and not finding anything to indicate a reason for things to not update correctly, I checked my Movie source by digging down through Videos to Files and then to the sources and the movies source. I checked the "Set Content" option. I was surprised to see that there was nothing set. "This looks to be an unexpected, but likely reason for my problems", I thought to myself. I set the content to "movies" and puzzled over the scraper options. There was only "local content .nfo", "Get more..." (at least I think that's what the second option was). I tried getting more and there were no options to get more. Definitely nothing that hinted at theMovieDB.org as I was hoping for. I backed out and I clicked "Local content" in frustration and damn me if it didn't promptly clean my library and removed all references to any movies or even a Movie library. There are NO movies in my XBMC anymore. There is not even a Movies option showing alongside the Videos, Music, Settings option on the home menu!
I know that I haven't physically lost the movies but I have no idea how to get them back. Can someone shed some light on this for me? How do I get them back? Why did my library not automatically update with the new movies in the first place? What was the content setting missing and why was there no scraper options?
Edit: It's a single Windows based PC with three drives in it - a bootable system drive with Windows and XBMC on it, and two data-only HDD drives containing the media files in nested folders.
After a lot of clicking around and not finding anything to indicate a reason for things to not update correctly, I checked my Movie source by digging down through Videos to Files and then to the sources and the movies source. I checked the "Set Content" option. I was surprised to see that there was nothing set. "This looks to be an unexpected, but likely reason for my problems", I thought to myself. I set the content to "movies" and puzzled over the scraper options. There was only "local content .nfo", "Get more..." (at least I think that's what the second option was). I tried getting more and there were no options to get more. Definitely nothing that hinted at theMovieDB.org as I was hoping for. I backed out and I clicked "Local content" in frustration and damn me if it didn't promptly clean my library and removed all references to any movies or even a Movie library. There are NO movies in my XBMC anymore. There is not even a Movies option showing alongside the Videos, Music, Settings option on the home menu!
I know that I haven't physically lost the movies but I have no idea how to get them back. Can someone shed some light on this for me? How do I get them back? Why did my library not automatically update with the new movies in the first place? What was the content setting missing and why was there no scraper options?
Edit: It's a single Windows based PC with three drives in it - a bootable system drive with Windows and XBMC on it, and two data-only HDD drives containing the media files in nested folders.