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I always used to use the I button in Kodi 17 to scan new folders for new shows, before in 16 it was an option in the C menu. But I updated to 17.4 and now the I button no longer does anything on new folders, but it does show the information on known folders.
Is there any way to get the functionality back?
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You may be using a different skin from the default Estuary skin, but I don't know of Estuary having a specific button to start scanning for new shows. It only has menu items that do that.
Can you give us a screenshot via imgur.com or imgbb.com ?
If the scanning does indeed not work, perhaps you can also provide a debug log, so we can have a more indepth look.
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'Scan for new content' has replaced the information screen that didn't have any information in it. If the source has been defined, your options on the context menu for a folder should be 'Scan for new content' and 'Scan to Library'. In the case of an incorrect scrape, the information screen brings the option for a refresh, and in that function, a denial, and subsequent 'No' for locally stored and refresh from the internet will bring the 'select show' and manual option. Yes, it's not the same as it used to be, but until you pointed this out, this slight function variation it had escaped me (tested out with two skins).
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The function is still there, from what I can see it's the change form 16 to 17, not something that is new to 17.4 vs 17.3 but alas I don't have 17.3 mounted anymore, so someone else will have to do the foot work on that.
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2017-08-30, 06:01
(This post was last modified: 2017-08-30, 06:18 by skylarking.)
Using Kodi 18.0-ALPHA1 Git:20170729-53da7c7 on Windows 7Pro updated as of latest August patch tuesday.
I can go into <Videos><Files> and click on my "BluRay" source to see an movies within.
As i have one unscraped movie (no metadata), highlinghting this movie and hitting "I" will pop up a keyboard where i can enter/edit movie title before this unscraped movie meta data is fetched via the scraper defined for this source.
So an old late July Leia build seems to work as in the 17.3 build, as others expect, if that info is useful to anyone.
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I then "Removed from library" the above scrapped movie using "Manage.." mouse right click context menu.
Then i followed with downloading and installing KodiSetup-20170827-9f5fd83303-master-x64.exe over the top of the older version (it was the latest version i could download).
And <Video><Files> "I" key behaviour was as the previous build.
That is, the movie was individually scrapped successfully.
Note that i have all my movies as mkv files within one directory per source if that is of any concequence.
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2017-08-30, 18:01
(This post was last modified: 2017-08-30, 18:02 by PatK.)
Trying to cast a bit more light on a few more details of this issue;
The information function (keyboard 'i' but no listing shown in the context menu, until a scan) and subsequent scrape works for both 17.4 and Leia 18 Alpha, when directly over the file (in file mode) but 'not' over the named folder, one must enter the folder of the video and scan to library is effective.
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Just throwing it out there, but I think most changes in the 17.x builds are backports from Leia, so the nightlies probably track each other (with some lag in 17 nightlies). What caused the change I don't know, but I think there have been changes relative to managing PVR recordings which might have had unintended side-effects.
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