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Today I've been doing some manual stream export testing using two different setups.

Code:

Windows 10 running Kodi 16.1 and GDrive Plugin 0.8.06
-Export STRM to: C:\Users\Me\strm
  - Export TV to: C:\Users\Me\gdrive-tv
  - Export movies to: C:\Users\Me\gdrive-movies

LibreElec running Kodi 16.1 and GDrive Plugin 0.8.12
-Export STRM to: storage/strm
  - Export TV to: storage/gdrive-tv
  - Export movies to: storage/gdrive-movies

My Google Drive structure:

Code:

documentaries
     Series Name
        Season 01
           Series Name - SXXEXX - Episode Name.mkv

series (same as documentaries)
     Series Name
        Season 01
           Series Name - SXXEXX - Episode Name.mkv

movies01
  My Movie (2016)
     My.Movie.2016.720p.bluray-group.mkv
     My.Movie.2016.720p.bluray-group-trailer.mov
     My.Movie.2016.720p.bluray-group.En.srt
  Another Movie (2015)
     Another Movie (2015).mkv
     Another Movie (2015)-trailer.mp4
     Another Movie (2015).srt

movies02 (same as movies01)

When I manually export (example right click 'movies01' folder > export strm > 'yes confirm') it exports to two locations (because it detects movies01 contains movies):

1. movies01 (nested folder structure, just like my google drive)
   
2. gdrive-movies (flat structure with all .strm files in the same folder)
   

but gdrive-movies does not contain the same number of files, as movies01. Analysing this:

C:\Users\Me\strm
1523 folders (1 folder = 1 movie).
2220 .strm files

C:\Users\Me\gdrive-movies
1854 .strm files

Too much in gdrive-movies. Should be 1523 in a perfect world

So what's in gdrive-movies that shouldn't be there? Examples:

Another Movie (2015)-trailer.mov.strm
Another Movie (2015)-trailer.mp4.strm
Another Movie (2015).srt.

These are not movies and I don't think they need to be copied to the 'movies' folder.

Searching for *-trailer.* returns only the .strm for trailers, but it's 587 files.

1854 - 587 = 1267 .strm files left. That's not correct. Now gdrive-movies would not contain enough .strm files.

So, then I went back to the 'movies01' export and I realised:
Movies in the format:
Movie.Name.Year.720p.SourceType-ReleaseGroup.ext

are not being copied to 'gdrive-movies' by the plugin.




In recent years, I started to keep the original filename of the movie, rather than renaming it. So all my films will have a "clean" human readable folder name, but the movies will be a mix of clean readable names and the original scene release name.

I think I posted about this before, around page 40 something if I remember correctly and I think you fixed it (definitely you fixed the *.srt.strm extra files), but maybe it crept back in somehow?

I saw in your original post, one you deleted, that you mentioned video-others (etc). That means you tried out the automatic STRM creation. Any feedback on that? I'm thinking about removing the tv shows and movies folder options (more options create more confusion) and just replace it with the single location where I create a music, movies, tv, and video-other, as demonstrated when you use the automatic STRM. thoughts?