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2011-06-27, 01:19
(This post was last modified: 2012-04-16, 05:38 by Ned Scott.)
Hello everyone,
I can't add movies to my xbmc library anymore.
Whenever I put something in the Movies folder, I get:
"Could not download information. Unable to connect to remote server. Would you like to continue scanning?"
If I delete everything from the movies folder, everything goes back to normal. Does not affect TV shows.
Any ideas? I'm on Mac/Snow Leopard by the way/\.
Thanks!
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Same here. Resuming sometimes works for a little while, sometimes not.
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check your shares guys...this has been covered in the forums at length... anyhow check to make sure that the everyone group has access to your shares, and I have found that using the simple file sharing is the easiest way other than setting up the shares via the ip address the media is on. Hope this gets you going in the right direction
remove anything having to do with windows live..
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It seems to be the scrapers that it's having trouble with. It finds a movie (I also have the problem with TV shows) but then fails when trying to fetch the metadata.
Sometimes it'll grab a dozen movies or so and then fail. Trying again sometimes restarts the import, sometimes not.
Example:
19:10:32 T:6672 M:4294967295 WARNING: XFILE::CFileCurl::CReadState::FillBuffer: curl failed with code 22
19:10:32 T:6672 M:4294967295 ERROR: CFileCurl::CReadState::Open, didn't get any data from stream.
19:10:32 T:6672 M:4294967295 ERROR: ADDON::CScraper::Run: Unable to parse web site
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Yup im on nightly builds and can confirm that the
tmdb scraper has issues. Switch to imdb scraper which
seems to be working.
It's prolly gonna be fixed soon.
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well...didn't see the last part.
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Same connection problem here with the imdb scraper
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Mac OS X can also have permissions issues in SMB shares. Individual files can be set wrong. Used to happen to me all the time.
Right click on the folder containing the files you are sharing, "Get Info". Unlock the padlock at the bottom of this window. If it's a public share and there's no password then you can just make sure that "everyone" has read/write access, then click on the gear at the bottom and "apply to enclosed items"
I hear that changing permissions from "Get Info" can be a little wonky sometimes (I wouldn't use it in other areas where you need to change permissions), but for something like this it should be okay. Obviously there are terminal commands for this as well, but I can't for the life of me remember a nice and free GUI utility that also works very well. I'm sure someone more experienced than I can probably give the best/easier advice for changing file permissions.
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its a known issue on trunk and 10.0-9 , its being looked at