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Hi folks,
I realise that I am probably missing something obvious here, but after using XBMC for 2 or 3 years this has only just occured to me!

I have 3 instances running around the home on different hardware, centralised MySQL database. All Media sorted and scraped, local graphics files (thumbs, posters etc) thanks to Artwork Downloader but . . .

When I check in any of the *.nfo files (exported AFTER all scraping/downloading) all references to thumbs etc are to on-line addressess.

Is this correct. Surely they should point to local files?

For e.g.
Movie "The 39 Steps (1935)" has ".actors", extrafanart, extrathumbs folders also all poster, fanart files - all in correct places in movie folder. But yet the
The 39 Steps (1935).nfo file has:

<actor>
<name>Robert Donat</name>
<role>Richard Hannay</role>
<thumb>http://cf2.imgobject.com/t/p/original/rT2t0onUsZiGn40HlJxkmPb7Wdb.jpg</thumb>
</actor>
<actor>
Which seems to point to the resource on-line at TMDB

http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/rT2t0...Pb7Wdb.jpg

Is my system still looking on line for everything that I've carefully downloaded?

Yep, that's correct. XBMC first checks for the existence of the image files themselves, and if they're not there then it attempts to use the URL from the NFO file. As long as XBMC finds the local image, based on the file name of the image, then it won't attempt to go online and download anything.