[Milhouse]

From what I recall of my texture cache, the tvshows all had remote http urls for logos and clearart, and not urls for the local versions that are available in the file system (and yes, "use local files" is enabled). I've since wiped out that particular media library and texture cache and not run AD since, but will try again when time permits (I'm currently trying to diagnose a caching/corruption/crashing issue on the Pi so don't want to mess with my local texture cache too much right now).

By the way I have version 12.0.15 installed, is this the latest version (does it auto update?)

I've now found some time for testing, and come to realise that I had completely misunderstood the "Use local files" option, which explains why I was unhappy with AD dumping files into my file system...

I had though that "Use local files" simply meant that AD would use (as in: read) local files in favour of remote files, but from the observed behaviour of AD, it also means that AD will *create* (ie. write) files whenever they are not present in the local file system. Presumably this is why it is grouped with the "Overwrite all existing artwork..." option on the Advanced tab, but perhaps "Overwrite all existing..." option should be grouped within "Use local files", with the "Overwrite all existing..." only being activated whenever "Use local files" is enabled.

Better still, the behaviour of "Use local files" would be made far less ambiguous by adding an extra option "Create local files for missing artwork" (or words to that effect). This would then mean that "Use local files" means only to use (ie. read) local files if and when they are present, and *never* to create files - that's what the other option would be for.

Apologies for impugning AD, but I really think the behaviour of the first two options on the Advanced tab could be made less ambiguous by the addition of a third option, and would hope you could add this in a future release. It would make AD more flexible[1], while also less confusing.

As for Confluence Modified and the "Download Art" button, it gets a clean bill of health (again sorry, @toiva) as the reason artwork is being downloaded is because of the "Use local files" option.

1. As things stand, I can't use AD in anger because I need movie name prefix support - without it, AD will (with "Use local files" enabled) write the same "logo.png" or "clearart.png" file all over my Movie library and then associate all movies with the same logo/clearart. However, I have logo.png and clearart.png files for my TV Shows, which could be safely used if "Use local files" was a read-only option. So, if the extra third option existed, and without movie-name prefix support, in AD I would enable "Use local fanart" so that my local TV Shows fanart is found and used, but for my movies AD would continue to use remote fanart.

If/when movie-name prefix support is added, I would enable the "Create local files for missing artwork", and the missing movie fanart would be downloaded and written as local files into my library and used in future when re-scraping (thanks to "Use local files" etc.). So by adding the third option, it makes AD more flexible while also eliminating any ambiguity.