[Milhouse]

Could it be that there is a little information missing that MilhouseVH needs to understand what you are saying? I have the feeling he is only talking about the "(Re-)Scrape movie" action and its configuration in the settings (as he posted screenshots of them)
But if I am not mistaken you are trying to tell him to not use "(Re-)Scrape movie" but the specific "Scrape NFO" action.
@MilhouseVH: Unfortunately I don't know the menu structure in detail from memory, but I think m.savazzi means this:

1. Store new movie with your selected poster and fanart in your movie directory
2. Open ember and update database -> The new movie is found and displayed with the poster and fanart stored next to him
3. Now the kicker: To retrieve the detailed movie information don't use "(Re-)Scrape movie" in the context menu if you right click on the movie. Instead lockout for something like "Scrape only partial information"->"NFO only". Its on a second level in the context menu. Mayby its named slightly different, but simply check all points of the context menu and you will find it.
4. If I understand savazzi correctly this should create the NFO file and keep your preselected poster and fanart.

@m.savazzi: Is this what you meant?

Thanks grumbler for also being confused like I am. I disabled the Image/Trailer scraper, thinking this would mean Ember only scraped NFO data, but no luck - Ember still presented me with blank poster/fanart during the scrape, and if the movie is then saved saved with blank poster/fanart Ember will DELETE the local poster/fanat files (this is a really bad Ember feature IMHO, but no doubt intentional/by design).

I tried your method above, and found "NFO only" not in the context menu but in the menu "Scrape Media", which means there is no ability to scrape "NFO only" for an individual movie - instead it is an action performed on various groups of movies (new movies, marked movies etc.) which makes it a bit less useful (I prefer to scrape my new additions one at a time - old habits etc.). It did work however (kind of - see below), only scraping the NFO data, but this now means there is no trailer written to the NFO, so it's not quite the perfect solution when all that is required is smarter handling of local artwork during the scrape.

I guess I'll just have to live with the awkward workflow and continue selecting local artwork. Thanks again for your help, glad it's not just me.

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The first time I ran "NFO only" for "New movies" (there was only one newly added movie, the animation film, "9"), Ember 1.3.0.13 produced the following error log - it seemed to work better when I tried a second time although the last two entries correspond with this second run:

Code:

================= <Assembly Versions> =================

Platform: x86
Ember Application (Revision: 1.3.0.13)
Ember API (Revision: 1.3.0.13)
Ember Extras Scraper (Revision: 1.3.0.12)
Ember Native Movie Scrapers (Revision: 1.3.0.13)
Ember TMDB Movie Scrapers (Revision: 1.3.0.13)
Ember XML Scraper (Revision: 1.3.0.5)
Renamer (Revision: 1.3.0.12)
Frame Extractor (Revision: 1.3.0.12)
Media File Manager (Revision: 1.3.0.5)
Movie List Exporter (Revision: 1.3.0.12)
NMT Jukebox Builder (Revision: 1.3.0.13)
Notifications (Revision: 1.3.0.5)
Offline Media Manager (Revision: 1.3.0.5)
XBMC Controller (Revision: 1.3.0.5)
Boxee Compatibility (Revision: 1.3.0.12)
MediaBrowser Compatibility (Revision: 1.3.0.12)
YAMJ Compatibility (Revision: 1.3.0.12)
Genres Editor (Revision: 1.3.0.12)
Media Sources Editor (Revision: 1.3.0.12)
Audio & Video Codec Mapping (Revision: 1.3.0.12)
Trakt Settings (Revision: 1.3.0.12)
Ember Native TV Scrapers (Revision: 1.3.0.13)

================= <Assembly Versions> =================

Title: Error: Y:\Video\Test\9 (2009)[DVDRip]-fanart.jpg
Message: Probable I/O race condition detected while copying memory. The I/O package is not thread safe by default. In multithreaded applications, a stream must be accessed in a thread-safe way, such as a thread-safe wrapper returned by TextReader's or TextWriter's Synchronized methods. This also applies to classes like StreamWriter and StreamReader.
StackTrace:    at System.Buffer.InternalBlockCopy(Array src, Int32 srcOffset, Array dst, Int32 dstOffset, Int32 count)
   at System.IO.MemoryStream.Write(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 count)
   at EmberAPI.Images.FromFile(String sPath)
Date/Time: 16/05/2013 08:54:52
===========================================================================================

Title: Error: Y:\Video\Test\9 (2009)[DVDRip]-poster.jpg
Message: Probable I/O race condition detected while copying memory. The I/O package is not thread safe by default. In multithreaded applications, a stream must be accessed in a thread-safe way, such as a thread-safe wrapper returned by TextReader's or TextWriter's Synchronized methods. This also applies to classes like StreamWriter and StreamReader.
StackTrace:    at System.Buffer.InternalBlockCopy(Array src, Int32 srcOffset, Array dst, Int32 dstOffset, Int32 count)
   at System.IO.MemoryStream.Write(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 count)
   at EmberAPI.Images.FromFile(String sPath)
Date/Time: 16/05/2013 08:54:52
===========================================================================================

Title: Error: Y:\Video\Test\9 (2009)[DVDRip]-fanart.jpg
Message: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
StackTrace:    at EmberAPI.Images.FromFile(String sPath)
Date/Time: 16/05/2013 08:56:35
===========================================================================================

Title: Error: Y:\Video\Test\9 (2009)[DVDRip]-fanart.jpg
Message: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
StackTrace:    at EmberAPI.Images.FromFile(String sPath)
Date/Time: 16/05/2013 08:58:51
===========================================================================================

Title: Error: Y:\Video\Test\9 (2009)[DVDRip]-fanart.jpg
Message: Cannot access a closed Stream.
StackTrace:    at System.IO.__Error.StreamIsClosed()
   at System.IO.MemoryStream.Write(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 count)
   at EmberAPI.Images.FromFile(String sPath)
Date/Time: 16/05/2013 08:58:51
===========================================================================================