[meridius]

so its basicly adding the same pictures i already have with different file names, why ? as its filling up my hard drives with unwanted duplicates of the same images with different filenames.

When you ask XBMC to export the video library it now will do so using one, and only one naming convention which is <movie>-type of fanart.extension e.g., The Life of Oharu (1982)-poster.jpg. The reason being is that this naming pattern will work for all users regardless of the type of library structure they are using: single movies each in their own named folder, or multiple movies all in the source folder, or mixed.

even if i leve the new files in the folder and delete disc.png, logo.png and movie.tbn when i re run artwork downloader it adds them same files back to the folder which is a pain.

Every time you ask AD to 'download' artwork and have specified under its configuration pane what type of artwork you want it to retrieve, it needs to put the found art somewhere, right?, and that would be your movie folder. You can't skip this part, otherwise no extra artwork would be in place. If you have asked to retrieve backdrops and posters, you have done that with TMDB scraper and exported your library already, then you are just somehow duplicating the process, because Artwork downloader will use the simple naming convention as in poster.jpg which to me is somehow inconsistent to a seamless integrated experience between AD and XBMC library export, and I believe you would agree with me here. However, Artwork downloader can retrieve extra art that TMDB does not, such as discart, clear logos, etc. You can ask AD not to download certain type of files that TMDB scrapper has taken care of and will continue taking care of, for instance.

whis is it doing this i would of thought you would not need all these duplicate pictures with different file names as xbmc 10.1 seems to work fine with the files i have been using for the past 2 years.

all these extra images of the same images are going to fill my drives up.

Should you not want these type of files to be exported to your movie folder then select 'No' when asked 'Do you want to export thumbnails and fan art?' and do the same for Actors thumbs. This will end up exporting only your NFO file. If you want to export them then ask to overwrite the pre-existent ones, but again, if your previous files are named only as disc.png or poster,jpg, those won't get overwritten because the naming pattern the 'export' function uses is different as explained above.

can anyone help on this as i have alot of movies i need to do but dont want to save all these images to drive as i already have them sorted.

thanks

I hope I have been of some help in understanding what is going on and why.

Should you have any further questions just post it here for all of us to see and try to help.

Best,

CF

thanks

but i can not figure out why artwork downloader can not load in

local saved image called
moviename (1962) (1080p Blu-ray)-(DTS-HD MA 5.1)-discart

why does it need to look for disc.png ? as when you export a library xbmc will save the disc.png as Moviename (1962) (1080p Blu-ray)-(DTS-HD MA 5.1)-discart

what i am saying is why does artwork downloader not look for these first then if it can not find Moviename (1962) (1080p Blu-ray)-(DTS-HD MA 5.1)-discart it falls back onto disc.png ?

as you always will need to versions of the same picture as artwork downloader will look for

disc.png
clearart.png
logo.png

and inport them from the local drive to xbmc but then when you export a library xbmc will save them as

Moviename (1962) (1080p Blu-ray)-(DTS-HD MA 5.1)-discart
Moviename (1962) (1080p Blu-ray)-(DTS-HD MA 5.1)-clearlogo
Moviename (1962) (1080p Blu-ray)-(DTS-HD MA 5.1)-clearart

so now you have two versions of the same picture. why can artwork downloader not use the same file format as xbmc local so when you do export the library it will not need to save them as there already there.

i need to use export library and pictures as this is what i use to export all my thumbs and pictures for my tv shows so i have no option not to use that.

i just think artwork downloader should try and find
Moviename (1962) (1080p Blu-ray)-(DTS-HD MA 5.1)-discart
Moviename (1962) (1080p Blu-ray)-(DTS-HD MA 5.1)-clearlogo
Moviename (1962) (1080p Blu-ray)-(DTS-HD MA 5.1)-clearart

first and if that fails should then check for

disc.png
clearart.png
logo.png

i hope you understand what i mean

cheers