2012-12-17, 18:28
A new and very strange issue has occurred for me during my last big scrape using the updated 5.11 release.
After adding my two movie folders and a save and quick refresh, everything was there. I then searched for new and it found the 25 movies i'd added since the last big scrape (have been slacking off). All movies are just lumped into one of the two folders btw, never had any issues, nor did i this time..sort of.
Everything was fine, genres, runtimes plots etc, a couple of foreign posters but easily corrected. Not so for the fanart though. There were a couple i didnt like, so i went into the tab and changed the first one, only the other fanarts from the movies all changed to the same picture. This happened regardless of which movie i chose to change the fanart on.
However, this only happened in one of the movie folders. The HD movies in the other folder all had their own fanart, and were also changeable individually.
So i was thinking folder permissions..even though i hadn't changed anything. Only, checking both folders revealed identical permissions.
Ok thinks i, time to revert.. so i dropped down to 5.08..same thing. I had a copy of 3.4.1 still installed with an intact cache and settings, so i ran a rebuild on that and found all the new movies via the .nfos only for it to present the same problem regarding changing the fanarts.
Both of theses movie folders are stored on an external drive plugged into the htpc btw. I ran a take ownership bat script on all the files within the stubborn folder, although i can't for some reason get the read only attribute to f&* .. ..go away . However, this has never been a problem before now, and as i stated, the other (working) folders permissions are identical.
..and that's where i am at. I dont want to simply scrape the fanarts in Xbmc, because when Frodo settles into maturity in a few months i was planning to zap the whole system and freshen it, plus, it's bugging me.
This is the part some of you bigger brainers step in, chastise me for my folly and oversight, and point out the simple solution.. Then i thank you profusely.
Regards, Mick.
After adding my two movie folders and a save and quick refresh, everything was there. I then searched for new and it found the 25 movies i'd added since the last big scrape (have been slacking off). All movies are just lumped into one of the two folders btw, never had any issues, nor did i this time..sort of.
Everything was fine, genres, runtimes plots etc, a couple of foreign posters but easily corrected. Not so for the fanart though. There were a couple i didnt like, so i went into the tab and changed the first one, only the other fanarts from the movies all changed to the same picture. This happened regardless of which movie i chose to change the fanart on.
However, this only happened in one of the movie folders. The HD movies in the other folder all had their own fanart, and were also changeable individually.
So i was thinking folder permissions..even though i hadn't changed anything. Only, checking both folders revealed identical permissions.
Ok thinks i, time to revert.. so i dropped down to 5.08..same thing. I had a copy of 3.4.1 still installed with an intact cache and settings, so i ran a rebuild on that and found all the new movies via the .nfos only for it to present the same problem regarding changing the fanarts.
Both of theses movie folders are stored on an external drive plugged into the htpc btw. I ran a take ownership bat script on all the files within the stubborn folder, although i can't for some reason get the read only attribute to f&* .. ..go away . However, this has never been a problem before now, and as i stated, the other (working) folders permissions are identical.
..and that's where i am at. I dont want to simply scrape the fanarts in Xbmc, because when Frodo settles into maturity in a few months i was planning to zap the whole system and freshen it, plus, it's bugging me.
This is the part some of you bigger brainers step in, chastise me for my folly and oversight, and point out the simple solution.. Then i thank you profusely.
Regards, Mick.
