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Example: 2020, "Utopia", and, "Pop Utopia"

I would name my folders as follows
Utopia (2020)
Pop Utopia (2020)

Sure, but in this example there is only content for Utopia (2020), and Pop Utopia (2020) is of no interest, it is just a nuisance because it exists in TVDB.

In the given example the tvshow.nfo probably would need to look like this:

xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>

<tvshow>

<uniqueid type="tvdb" default="true">361002</uniqueid>

<episodeguide>

<url post="yes" cache="auth.json">https://api.thetvdb.com/login?{&quot;api...ation/json</url>

</episodeguide>

</tvshow>

That won't do anything and won't work anyway.

I assume you want the tvshow.nfo to simply find the correct tv show. If yes, then what you are after is a Parsing NFO file... https://kodi.wiki/view/NFO_files#Parsing_nfo

Delete what is inside your nfo file and place the following and nothing else into it... https://www.thetvdb.com/series/pop-utopia. That's it, just a single URL.

Make sure the file is called tvshow.nfo. That is the actual file name, so don't change it to anything else and save it inside your Pop Utopia (2020) folder.

Good to know. I obviously misunterstood the documentation for fiel naming and tvshow.nfo in the Wiki.

Important: In my last post I forgot to mention that I am using a remote MariaDB for the library DB.

So for this example it is about Utopia 2020. The according URL at TVDB would be: https://www.thetvdb.com/series/utopia-2020

I did as you suggested, and moved Utopia 2020 out of the library path, cleaned the library, moved Utopa 2020 back into the library path and updated the library.

Unfortuantely the TVDB scraper still scrapes Pop Utopia 2020, not Utopia 2020, as was desired.
There is no mention in the debug log that the tvshow.nfo is being used.
It can be seen that episode matches are found, but in the TVDB URLs being used the unique ID is always the one of Pop Utopia 2020 (not Utopia, as it should be).

So I created an additional folder Pop Utopia (2020) with a tvshow.nfo with the URL you mentioned above. Note that there are no media content files in folder Pop Utopia (2020).
Then I cleaned the library as described above (both folders moved out of the library path).
After moving both folders back into the library path I updated the library.

The result unfortunately was still the same.
Still lost - whats happening?