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This looks like a completely random problem tbh.
I have 2 boxes running RC1 under Ubuntu 9.10, with the exact same share setup, and one of them updates both movies and tv just fine, the second one only updates tv shows.
I'm also using symlinks, and all movies/episodes are inside folders...guess I'll try what Darre suggested, before I move away from symlinks :/
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Just want to chime in and say i have this problem as well... i upgraded from a very old build of xbmc to dharma rc1.
I'll post a log up sometime when i have free time.
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Just noticed XBMC doesn't seem to be storing the settings for "set content". I check the box to scan regularly hit ok, then bring the settings back up and the box is unchecked.
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The setting (which I agree is badly named - will see if I can come up with a better one) for "Run scan automatically" is a once-only scan.
Ideally we'd remove this and replace with a "would you like to refresh/scan" which happens anyway if you _change_ the scraper setting(s).
Will see what I can do - no promises it'll make Dharma as at this point we don't want to touch the code too much.
Cheers,
Jonathan
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Ah no worries I only mentioned it as thought it might be part of the problem but if its a once only option then doesn't matter.
Cheers for replying.
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I too am having this issue. Dharma RC2.
Junctions do not update.
Initial scan works and adds everything, including everything contained in the folder junctions.
Subsequent updates of folders that are junctioned do not work.
I too have my library spread over many different folders and hard drives.
I don't see any errors in the debug log, only:
00:59:25 T:2955558912 M:2040754176 DEBUG: VideoInfoScanner: Skipping dir 'smb://192.168.1.50/VIDEO_ROOT/' due to no change
00:59:25 T:2955558912 M:2040725504 DEBUG: VideoInfoScanner: Skipping dir 'smb://192.168.1.50/VIDEO_ROOT/HD_VIDEO_1/' due to no change (fasthash)
00:59:25 T:2955558912 M:2040455168 DEBUG: VideoInfoScanner: Skipping dir 'smb://192.168.1.50/VIDEO_ROOT/HD_VIDEO_2/' due to no change (fasthash)
00:59:25 T:2955558912 M:2040455168 DEBUG: VideoInfoScanner: Skipping dir 'smb://192.168.1.50/VIDEO_ROOT/HD_VIDEO_3/' due to no change (fasthash)
00:59:25 T:2955558912 M:2040426496 DEBUG: VideoInfoScanner: Skipping dir 'smb://192.168.1.50/VIDEO_ROOT/HD_VIDEO_4/' due to no change (fasthash)
In my case, VIDEO_ROOT is the share, and the HD_VIDEO_1, HD_VIDEO_2, etc. folders are the directory junctions. If I add files into the VIDEO_ROOT share directly, XBMC update picks up the new files. Files that get added to the directory junctions are not picked up during an update.
It would be nice if we can get this fixed.
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Actually it's unlikely to be fixed unless there's a way to identify the case. As said before in this thread, it only affects junctions and only if there are no folders in the junction share on initial scan. As I'm sure you can agree, this is a tiny set of users that would fall into this case. That said, if there's a way to reliably identify this case (eg detect that a "folder" is a junction) then we can add support.
All other cases work just fine.
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2010-12-08, 16:10
(This post was last modified: 2010-12-09, 00:18 by el_don.)
I don't think that this is the solution.
I have another strange behaviour with Dharma RC2 while updating my TV library.
This is my situation:
I have a fileserver with all my movies an TV-seasons on it. On my mediacenter (Windows 7) I mounted the SMB share like this:
z:
- movies
-- movie1.avi
-- movie2.avi
-- movie3.... etc
-tvshows
--married with children
---season 1
----married with children.s01e01.avi etc...
---season 2
----married with children.s02e01.avi etc...
The movie library is updating fine. But whenever I make a TV-Show update XBMC only finds the first season of ALL TV-Shows on the share.
The strange thing is, that the installed XBMC Dharma on my iMac works fine with the same SMB share. The library updates perfectly there.
So is this a windows specific problem?? Or did I get something wrong?
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Thanks for the reply, but unfortunately this didn't help.
I am sure that the settings on both XBMCs (Mac and Windows) are the same.
Any Otter suggestions? Thanks so far...