2012-05-31, 20:42
Ah, ok. I didn't log as much as I maybe should have, but it should make a note every time it updates something on MAL. But I can see where the confusion is coming from here.
MAL just lists number of episodes watched - not the specific episode. So, if you only watch one episode in the middle of the season of something, it'll only update to a 1, so in your example, it won't update to a 4 because that's the last episode number watched, not number of episodes watched. It is kind of silly, but I understand their reasoning - it would be much more unwieldy to have a user mark each individual episode as watched like XBMC does.
With Season 11 episode 14, assuming it's in your library (if it isn't then mal can't see it), I would assume that you didn't go far enough in to have XBMC mark it as watched. Although, I notice that you mapped all 13 seasons of naruto in xbmc to a single show in mal. This is another limitation I'm trying to figure out (I had forgotten about it, though) that I noticed with Eureka Seven. MAL maps E7 as a 50 episode show in one season, but the TVDB, and by extension XBMC, maps E7 as 4 separate seasons. XBMAL resets the count for each season, which means that only the season with the greatest number of watched episodes will get counted. I'm not sure how to fix this yet.
Your organization looks perfectly fine and shouldn't cause any problems. The fact that XBMAL is updating at least proves that it can see the XBMC library.
Finally, the settings for username/password and the config file are stored in /userdata/addon_data/script.xbmal, and that particular folder is not removed when you uninstall the addon (this is true of all addons that use that folder or store settings in some way). You don't have to make a fresh .xbmc folder, you just need to remove that addon_data folder. I would backup the config.xml file first though, particularly if you have a lot of shows (mine lists 206 items, which is a real pain to update).
The number of shows it says it's updating is the number that it sees in xbmc as incomplete. Most of the time they won't change on MAL, but it still attempts to change them. In my case, it's listing 17 (maybe it's 16 now that I've finished katanagatari, I haven't paid attention...) because it sees that I've started watching 17 shows in XBMC but haven't finished them. It updates them, regardless of if they need updated, because xbmal doesn't keep track of what the last number updated was from either mal or xbmc, because it's possible the mal number will change outside of xbmc (if you watch it at a friend's place, for example).
All that said, though, you should see XBMAL make a note in the log each time it marks a show as completed, plan to watch, or watching in MAL.
EDIT:
I should correct myself on the second to last paragraph. It uses the MAL status first to determine if it should try to update the show or not - if the status is 'watching' or 'plan to watch', and the number of episodes watched isn't 0, it'll update, or if it can't find a status for the show in MAL (indicating you haven't yet added it to mal), it'll add it for you with the appropriate status. If you add and immediately watch something like Pale Cocoon, for example, it'll add it to MAL for you and immediately mark it as completed, but if add something else and don't watch it immediately and watch something else instead, it'll add it to MAL and add it to plan to watch. It won't touch anything in any other category.
MAL just lists number of episodes watched - not the specific episode. So, if you only watch one episode in the middle of the season of something, it'll only update to a 1, so in your example, it won't update to a 4 because that's the last episode number watched, not number of episodes watched. It is kind of silly, but I understand their reasoning - it would be much more unwieldy to have a user mark each individual episode as watched like XBMC does.
With Season 11 episode 14, assuming it's in your library (if it isn't then mal can't see it), I would assume that you didn't go far enough in to have XBMC mark it as watched. Although, I notice that you mapped all 13 seasons of naruto in xbmc to a single show in mal. This is another limitation I'm trying to figure out (I had forgotten about it, though) that I noticed with Eureka Seven. MAL maps E7 as a 50 episode show in one season, but the TVDB, and by extension XBMC, maps E7 as 4 separate seasons. XBMAL resets the count for each season, which means that only the season with the greatest number of watched episodes will get counted. I'm not sure how to fix this yet.
Your organization looks perfectly fine and shouldn't cause any problems. The fact that XBMAL is updating at least proves that it can see the XBMC library.
Finally, the settings for username/password and the config file are stored in /userdata/addon_data/script.xbmal, and that particular folder is not removed when you uninstall the addon (this is true of all addons that use that folder or store settings in some way). You don't have to make a fresh .xbmc folder, you just need to remove that addon_data folder. I would backup the config.xml file first though, particularly if you have a lot of shows (mine lists 206 items, which is a real pain to update).
The number of shows it says it's updating is the number that it sees in xbmc as incomplete. Most of the time they won't change on MAL, but it still attempts to change them. In my case, it's listing 17 (maybe it's 16 now that I've finished katanagatari, I haven't paid attention...) because it sees that I've started watching 17 shows in XBMC but haven't finished them. It updates them, regardless of if they need updated, because xbmal doesn't keep track of what the last number updated was from either mal or xbmc, because it's possible the mal number will change outside of xbmc (if you watch it at a friend's place, for example).
All that said, though, you should see XBMAL make a note in the log each time it marks a show as completed, plan to watch, or watching in MAL.
EDIT:
I should correct myself on the second to last paragraph. It uses the MAL status first to determine if it should try to update the show or not - if the status is 'watching' or 'plan to watch', and the number of episodes watched isn't 0, it'll update, or if it can't find a status for the show in MAL (indicating you haven't yet added it to mal), it'll add it for you with the appropriate status. If you add and immediately watch something like Pale Cocoon, for example, it'll add it to MAL for you and immediately mark it as completed, but if add something else and don't watch it immediately and watch something else instead, it'll add it to MAL and add it to plan to watch. It won't touch anything in any other category.
