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Hi, Kodi 17.6 suddenly after many years hangs during library scanning. The message from Kodi is that there is "Unable to connect to remote server. So would you like to continue scanning?".
So I changed the information provider from The Movie Database to Universal Movie Scraper but it did not help. I have also reinstalled Kodi 17.6 but that did not help too.
Also I deleted the files Kodi hangs on and then it keeps hanging on another file so it seams not to be a certain file.
Is there any known problem about this?
I am using windows 10 the latest update.
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Hi,
I tried version 19 once. Maybe 6 months ago and that time Kodi did not find all my movies. Kodi find only about 20% of all the movies in my 4 libraries. I tried a lot to make it work but after a week i gave up and returned to 17.6 which finds all my movies.
Except for now, this evening, when Kodi hangs during scanning.
If I could find the wrongs with 19.1 no one would be happier than me but I did not succeed. I also tried different 18-versions. Same with all of them except the old 17.6.
I can try and provide a debug log tomorrow. I hope I remember how to do.
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Update Kodi to Matrix with the latest scrapers, then a debug log would have more meaning.
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Backups are the first word that comes to my mind before upgrading anything. Databases should be upgraded properly with an update, but add-ons in Kodi 19 require Python-3 compatibility. A clean install of everything is recommended IMO.
Also, Kodi 19 now defaults to SMBv2 in networking, should you use SMB. This change could hinder your new Kodi experience. Some people have had a problem with the new Samba network requirements while others have not.
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Hi, So that can be the reason then why my scraper did not work properly and just found 20% of my movies? That would be good news because I would be happy to update to a new Kodi. Also I liked the new look of things and organization better than 17.6.
So I would like to try if there is a reasonable possibility that it can work with the library scans.
My set-up, oh, I have just the software installed as usual in the PC and on the same PC there are 3 hard drives. 2 internal and one external by USB. The libraries are on that 2 internal hard drives. The computer is connected by WiFi to a Asus router and communicating that way with the Movie database. Also there are the normal softwares like Office package, Firefox and so on in that PC. An there is my music software JRiver also.
Also I send movies to this PC/libraries from another PC also in my home. And also I send music to the music libraries for JRiver. So there is internet connections and I do backups with Good sync and I think in there I have seen SMB for backup to my Qnap server.
Maybe it is better to have an external file server? Maybe I should look into that in the future. No worries about noise from fans and hard drives then but that PC is very quite already.
Update:
While writing this answer I started the PC with Kodi in the other room and it works fine now!! Very strange! I did nothing more that update all the libraries yesterday and now when I started Kodi right away started to scan and did so for some time because there are maybe 2000 movies.
Yesterday Kodi did not work before I closed down for the night.
However, I would like to try 19.1 anyway. Is it possible to install 19.1 "next to" 17.6? If 19.1 not works then I still have 17.6 if you understand what I mean. Also I could work with the maybe non working 19.1 for several weeks and still use 17.6 when I want to look a movie in the evening.
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Very nice! Thank you very much for the help. I will try the portable method first of all. I let you know.
Do I need to install this Pyhuton-3 software?
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Thanks, OK I will give it a try. I let you know :-)