2019-12-19, 03:51
I've had a cascade of failure with running VIMM lately. I am really puzzled.
First I was unable to scrape just one TV show - popup said it can't find the show, although it is on TVDB. I thought maybe it was the TVDB change, and tried every few days or so. After a while VIMM would give the spinning rainbow when this happened. Various things stopped working in VIMM, and it couldn't find any show or movie. I deleted all the files mentioned in the user guide (made a script for this I'll show below). That didn't work. I progressed to deleting everything including the app, and reinstalling. No joy. I added restarting the computer to the process.
I just did all of that, starting completely from scratch, a few times. What happens now is, when I navigate in setup to Movies or TVshows, and click "Open", a popup says "File not found". Then when I finish setup and try to Update the list to see shows or movies, I get the spinning rainbow and have to force quit.
As I say this is crazy strange, as this version ( v0.7α21 ) worked before.
Here's the script I use to automate the cleaning process. It will retain your Studios folder if you have one. It does not delete the app itself.
First I was unable to scrape just one TV show - popup said it can't find the show, although it is on TVDB. I thought maybe it was the TVDB change, and tried every few days or so. After a while VIMM would give the spinning rainbow when this happened. Various things stopped working in VIMM, and it couldn't find any show or movie. I deleted all the files mentioned in the user guide (made a script for this I'll show below). That didn't work. I progressed to deleting everything including the app, and reinstalling. No joy. I added restarting the computer to the process.
I just did all of that, starting completely from scratch, a few times. What happens now is, when I navigate in setup to Movies or TVshows, and click "Open", a popup says "File not found". Then when I finish setup and try to Update the list to see shows or movies, I get the spinning rainbow and have to force quit.
As I say this is crazy strange, as this version ( v0.7α21 ) worked before.
Here's the script I use to automate the cleaning process. It will retain your Studios folder if you have one. It does not delete the app itself.
bash::<<COMMENT
In terminal, type "sudo ", then drag the script file in.
COMMENT
#!/bin/bash
############################################
# Remove preferences file
############################################
rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.vidalvanbergen.vimediamanager-alpha.plist
############################################
# Remove CrashReporter file
############################################
rm ~/Library/Application\ Support/CrashReporter/ViMediaManager*
############################################
# Remove contents of ViMediaManager folder,
# but protect Studios folder if it exists.
# Two ways to do it.
############################################
# mv ~/Library/Application\ Support/ViMediaManager/Studios ~/Library/Application\ Support
# rm -R ~/Library/Application\ Support/ViMediaManager/*
# mv ~/Library/Application\ Support/Studios ~/Library/Application\ Support/ViMediaManager/Studios
# OR . . .
cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/ViMediaManager
find . -maxdepth 1 ! -name Studios ! -name . -exec rm -rv {} \;
cd ~
############################################
# Remove savedState file
############################################
rm -R ~/Library/Saved\ Application\ State/com.vidalvanbergen.vimediamanager-alpha.savedState/
############################################
# Remove Caches folder
############################################
rm -R ~/Library/Caches/com.vidalvanbergen.vimediamanager-alpha/
############################################
# Find and remove the playlist file
############################################
find /private/var/db/BootCaches -name *vimediamanager* -exec rm -v {} \;
exit
