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File Scanner Improvements II
buah:
Please see previous post first. These are pictures after updating file information.
IMDb information hadn't change, as you can see.
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CAD:
hi buah.
thanks for explaination.
Your process will only work (for me) if PVD detects a changed file path.
The core issue is at detection phase. PVD needs to be able to tell that the volume has been changed not just the path.
Once it has done this it can process as per your process
If you movie 20 movies and you move them from drive i: (with volume label of 15G) to drive h:(with volume label of 1TB) - PVD will detect that the path has changed and give you options to process these movies.
If you move movies from drive i: (with volume label of 15G) to c:\drive. Then swap 15G drive out with 1TB drive. Then copy movies from c: drive to 1TB drive. Now you have 1TB drive with movies on it, but path is still i: - PVD will not detect that path has changed. (it is still i: drive), but the volume label has changed from 15G to 1TB.
nostra:
To be honest, CAD, I do not think such a functionality of detecting changed labels, but same paths will be available any time soon as I really can't imagine many users having such situations and you could just have changed the label (not switched hard drives) and the whole thing only to update one field (not a critical one)...
buah:
Hi CAD.
Thanks for your patience.
Now I see that your original idea for File scanner was to be able to update volume change, regardless of path change, which wasn't clear to me before your most recent post, mostly because I don't have such a routine for storing movies (and it was obvious when I didn't know why someone would move movies so often:))
With my routine (discussed in some other topic) I can never be confused where my movie should be ("ID" story)
Although I don't need such an option, I agree it should work the way you suggested, of course.
Edit: nostra posted his post while I was typing mine, but I won't change it, because it complies with what nostra wrote (not many users...)
rick.ca:
--- Quote from: CAD on August 17, 2010, 01:01:06 am ---If you move movies from drive i: (with volume label of 15G) to c:\drive. Then swap 15G drive out with 1TB drive. Then copy movies from c: drive to 1TB drive. Now you have 1TB drive with movies on it, but path is still i: - PVD will not detect that path has changed. (it is still i: drive), but the volume label has changed from 15G to 1TB.
--- End quote ---
It's possible to reserve a drive letter for each drive used. I don't have need for it, but it seems USB Drive Letter Manager is the tool to use.
But aside from that, you should be able to change those volume labels using Re-read file information. With 1TB attached, use Advance search to select Media label = 15G and re-scan. The movies with files on 1TB will have their Media label updated. The movies with files on 15G (only) will be unaffected because the files will not be found. I'm assuming, of course, the file scanner just skips these and doesn't report errors.
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