2013-05-27, 16:11
(2013-05-26, 14:54)rich.h Wrote: Hoping someone can offer soe insight on a minor issue. I use pseudo TV along with pseudo TV manager, also my drives are setup as "media 1, media 2 etc" just for my own ease when doing backups. All my currently in use drives are connected via direct SATA to the motherboard. Also for backup I have a usb SATA connector whereby each backup drive gets plugged in once a week and synced.
Due to funds I can only buy drives one at a time and so work on the following method:
1. Buy a drive to use as a working media drive and organse the files, also this is a risky time as there is no backup drive.
2. When funds allow me I purchase a backup drive for the first step and begin sync.
3. Buy a second working media drive when funds allow/space is low and use without backup until funds allow.
4. Repeat from step 2.
The risk aspect of this is not an issue its simple reality of funds, but for efficiency I try to buy the largest drive I can afford. This has just resulted in me buying a 2tb drive to replace what was my media 2 drive (1tb), and using the old drive as a partial backup until funds allow me to buy a 3tb and so on.
My problem is that now I tell xbmc to edit a folder, for example I tell xbmc that my new TV show folder is no longer F:\TV (the old 1tb) and now G:\TV (the new 2tb). This results in having to scan the media in xbmc for new entries. Here is the problem I end up with now duplicates in the library for example I see two instances of "Through the Wormhole" I can easily manually remove the show and keep the new drive version but this is slow and painstaking. If I were to totally clean my xbmc video library and re add all library file locations will this cause a problem with my pseudo TV setup?
I removed the example program above manually and it solved the issue in the library however when I open up pseudo TV manager there is still two instances listed. Hitting refresh didn't fix this issue so I am left wondering if the only option is to wipe the script file? However this will result in having to setup all my channels/networks etc from scratch, a task I'm not willing to do.
Have I missed an obvious solution to this issue? many thanks in advance.
If you have two drives with the same media and both are configured as sources in xbmc then as far as xbmc scanning stuff it will add everything from drive 1 and drive 2, it doesnt matter if the files are the same, you set them both as sources so xbmc treats them like sources.
If you are removing the old drive so that you only have one copy of your media that xbmc can see, but it is under a different path than when you originally scanned it in then you just need to clean your video library and xbmc will remove the entries that dont have a valid path anymore.
What it sounds like youre doing is duplicating all your media and having them both listed as sources in xbmc. What you should do is just change the drive letters for your media drives so that the drive you plug in as a replacement assumes the drive letter of the original drive. Then you wont need to change anything in xbmc and it will continue to scan in new content as you fill that drive. If youre using windows then open control panel > administrative tools > computer management > disk management and right click the drive to change its letter.