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File Scanner Improvements II

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buah:
While it was really hard for me to track your routine (:-\), I'll point that there are two options in the context menu for a file(s) scanned in a File scanner window:

1. Add new movie

2. Change action to "Add new movie"


I suggested to use the second option, because that option gives results you've asked for at the beginning of the topic. In addition, if I understood rick's most recent post, there is a checkbox "Add to existing files" in the window that opens after choosing second option, mentioned above. Maybe that could help with adding trailers or any other video file(s)? It works for me in cases when adding "Makin of" documentaries for a movie, for instance.

nostra:
Hmm, it seems like the scanner will need a partial rewrite for the version 1 :-/

rick.ca:

--- Quote ---While it was really hard for me to track your routine...
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They're mentioned in there somewhere. :P

In the case where the scan has found only one of two files...

1. allows whatever file(s) were missed by the scan to be added as a separate movie, which then has to be combined with the original using "same move;" not only is this a PITA, it's not likely to result in the files being in the correct order (i.e., trailer first).

2. will just result in the one file being recorded, and the file information will be updated.

So, fiddling with the scanner results is not a efficient as simply changing the results directly. And that's a lot safer, as in the ordinary course of things one would have to be very careful to make all the necessary adjustments to the scan results. Curiously, if the existing File path contents are deleted before, the scanner will correctly add all the existing files. That might be the workaround to use in my regular work flow. After viewing a movie, I'll mark it viewed, rate it, delete File path and replace the media file with a log file. Then (maybe at a later time) I'll run the scan.

I'll just have to move all my trailers from \Trailers to something that comes before \Movies. Then the scanner will add the files (including the logs in \Viewed) in the correct order. Unfortunately, because of this issue, I can't just rename the folder and rescan. ::) :'(


--- Quote ---Hmm, it seems like the scanner will need a partial rewrite for the version 1 :-/
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You mean it wasn't getting a complete rewrite anyway?! ;D

Maybe you already know what the problem is—I still have difficulty understanding exactly what it's doing. I wonder if there's any promise of an easy fix in my latest observation (highlighted above). If the scanner is able to correctly add all matching files when there's nothing in File path, then it shouldn't be confused by existing data. On the other hand, I don't think it is or should be quite that simple. For example, if a file has been moved, it doesn't seem right that the scanner should fail because of a regex issue. It should be able to match the file to the movie on the basis a file with the same name is currently recorded in that movie's File path. :-\

CAD:

--- Quote ---Try it, don't guess and hesitate, please. Simulate.
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--- Quote ---choosing action "Add New Movie" instead of "Change File Path" from the context menu on a selected title in the File scanner,
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Ok tried this. Didn't work.

The scanner needs to search that the  "Volume label" of the drive has changed as part of its detection. Not just the path.
I can have the same path but with a different volume label. ie when I swap drives out.

If I change path and then add movie - Yes it does update Media label (volume), but it also re-downloads everything from internet (not what I wanted and not necessary. This has already been done (and checked to be correct).
Selecting "Same movie" does not update Media label.

I do not get to choose anything if the path has not changed (but volume label has) to select add movie as an option.

buah:
It works, at least for me. See complete step-by-step process in pictures attached

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