2012-03-15, 01:55
(2012-03-14, 22:53)chippie Wrote: Thank you for the suggestions. I tried each fix and unfortunately I am still seeing the same behavior. It seems that my TV Shows artwork is damaged somehow. I have confirmed that what I am seeing displayed as fanart is actually banners, horizontals, clearart, logoart, posters... I am resigning myself to a fresh install as you suggested. I don't hold out hope for a fix as I found no mention of this after searching.
Yeah not sure about this one, you can try is to rename your Thumbnails folder and textures.xbt then go back in to XBMC. It should then rebuild the fanart, clearart, logos etc.. but it will NOT rebuild the Posters. If this works and you just have Posters missing (everything else is ok) then you know it is a problem with the Thumbnails folder. In which case I would probably rebuild from scratch to have a nice clean install
I found a repair for this. I found a commonality that all the shows that were displaying badly shared - I have 2 TV Show locations on 2 drives and the shows that were having trouble were the shows that were spread across the 2 locations (EX: seasons 1,2 on drive 1; seasons 3,4 on drive 2). I decided that if the banners, horizontals, clearart, logoart, posters were showing as extra fanart I would delete all of them. I deleted all, renamed my textures6.db to old, then ran Artwork Downloader and grabed new ones. This worked. As soon as I deleted the files the odd behavior stopped. Now after downloading all new art everything is working as it should - and as it used to. I have had these same shows stored across these 2 drives for a while with no problems using MQ2, and then with MQ3 when it was released. No idea what happened and no real 'solution', just a work around for whatever did happen.
Now.... if I can figure out how to select new TV Show thumbs (posters) I will be happy. I am using "Use poster.jpg for TV Shows". When I show info for a tv show I only have the option to "Get Fanart" no option for "Get Thumb". I know this used to exist, and when I switch to Confluence the option to "Get Thumb" is there again. Any ideas on this...? ... and thanks again for pointing me to the textures?.db and the guisettings.xml files. Never messed with them before.
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