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At the end it wasn't that... too bad. I restarted scraping from scratch and now I want to back stuff up for good, once I'm all set.
Now, if I select Export library to multiple files, will that backup everything? Movies posters, movies fanart, movies info, TV Series fanart, TV Series thumbs, TV Series single episodes thumbs, TV Series seasons thumbs, TV Series info, TV Series seasons info? Everything?
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If you update library it *should* detect a change in the thumbs, which *should* cause it to be rescanned.
The trouble is: We have no way of knowing if:
1. The thumb change triggered the rescan, or if it was something else.
2. Whether this thumb change was intentional by the user (or did they just copy it over from somewhere else, and all that changed was the modtime of the file).
3. Whether this thumb is the one that is cached.
Improving the thumb caching mechanism is something we want to do, unfortunately it doesn't happen overnight, and until someone starts coding it up things will stay as they are.
A simple improvement is allowing the thumbcache to know the origins of the thumb. If it was from a local thumb, then we can easily re-cache it on update (assuming a change has been made). If it's from a net based source, then that decision is a little harder to make automatically.
Cheers,
Jonathan
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jmarshall:
Am I correct in saying the following:
When a item is added to the library, It checks the local cached library to see if the content is their ( thumbs, cast, plot, etc ) for the item. If it finds it, it uses that else it goes off to internet to find it.
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If I find a better piece of fanart than I all ready have i just copy over the existing on in the movie folder, than fire up xbmc, go to the movie fanart in question and hit the refresh button, xbmc now shows my new fanart.
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