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What is the fastest wat tot arange the posters and fanart of a large movie collection.
I don't want anything to be saved in my movie folders. Just the way XBMC handles it by default
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I don't understand the question. If you don't want anything saved in the movie folders, then the fastest way to handle artwork is to simply let XBMC download artwork like it normally does.
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2013-05-18, 13:15
(This post was last modified: 2013-05-18, 13:15 by Kib.)
I have no idea what you want to hear.
XBMC stores fanart locally in your thumbnail cache, so it speeds up after you navigate the interface for a while.
However, whenever you start over everything would need to rescraped again.
This can be sped up enormously by exporting your library to seperate files which can save hours when rescraping a larger movie collection, but you seem intent not to do this.
Basically, if you do not want them in the movie folders, you can't 'arrange' anything as the posters and fanart URLs are only in the database.
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Thanks for the reply guys, i see i did not explain it well enough.
Kibje, indeed i do not backup anything after a format. I don't know what files to backup (raspberry Pi/Openelec)
Now i did use XBMC Backup, but there where some problems with my Pi after updating Raspbmc so i need to do a clean install "again".
And add the watched/unwatched status to my movie library.
And some posters or fanart i manually change to fit my needs.
This is why i thought ill ask if there is a more easy way then do it from within XBMC itself.
What files do i need to backup to have a backup of my Movie Database + Posters/Fanart + Watched/Unwatched status
This is basically what i want.
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This will not harm a XBMC install, but obviously you will lose all changes done after the backup was made.
Is there a specific reason you do not want to add files to the movie folders ?
It is the easiest way to be able to rescrape the entire library in case your database goes corrupt and your backup is too old.
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XBMC always scales it down after it has been scraped. No matter if you have local art or not.
You can change this in advancedsettings.xml