[justcallmeandy]

Hi,

Here's the issue. My whole library was scraped using TMDB, but I'm about to switch to the IMDB scraper due to its more comprehensive ratings and information.

However, I've spent a good while ensuring that I've got all of the backdrops and thumbs that I like for my collection, some 1200+ movies.

I'm offered, when switching scrapers, to refresh info for all movies. Ideally, I want to refresh everything, but not lose my fanart/thumbs.

Is there a way of either
write protecting the fanart/thumbs
or
restoring just the fanart/thumbs following a rescan.

I've also tried just changing the scraper settings to not pick up any poster/backdrop, but this doesn't do the trick.

Any tips would be appreciated. I'm currently thinking something like exporting the current library, then following the rescan, using a third party tool to force the original images back into the library.

Thanks,


Andy

[rocketpants]

if you export the library to separate files you could then delete all the.nfo files but retain all the images from the export. The rescan should then connect to imdb for data but use your local images.