[takoi]

Maybe I misunderstand what it does. If I delete a movie on my computer and then start xbmc, can't the watchdog run then and know what's deleted? I mean I know it doesn't work that way, but is it not possible?

Enable GUI setting "Update library on startup" and enable "cleanonupdate" in advancedsetting.xml. This should force xbmc to clean on startup

Does this add-on update the Userdata/database db files (sqlite) or does it save data elsewhere? I just installed the plugin and the Databse files for music and video are empty even though I've added my directories to my respective libraries.

It does not. It doesn't store any data, just tells xbmc when to do an update. Are you sure you've set up your media sources correctly?

I tried out Watchdog today and it works great. I did notice something during testing though that was driving me crazy until I figured out what was going on. I was testing watchdog on a folder that contains tv series. So the structure is episodes within a series folder. To test watchdog I was simply dragging a series folder in and out of the source folder. I had Watchdog set to "clean" when a file is removed/deleted.

Watchdog always detected when the series folder was added to the source folder, but it NEVER detected when the series was removed from the source folder, i.e. it never did a "clean". I thought the software was broken, until I tried removing the episode file inside the series folder - rather than the series itself - then watchdog did the clean.

So it seems to not detect the removal of series folders (but it does detect their addition).

Please provide a full debug log from when this is happening. (Also, remember to turn debug logging on in the GUI settings first)

Anyway, its a minor thing. Watchdog does what I want just fine, although it would be nice if the "clean" dialog could be gotten rid of...

As discussed before: xbmc controls this and there's currently no way disable it. But yeah, it is annoying..