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katleeh:
I've got a question here... Oftentimes I will add the information for a TV series or movie manually and download the info from TVDB or whichever site I use and then scan the hard files later. Is there a faster way of doing this as opposed to having to go to each file and manually doing it? When you have large series that takes awhile. I notice that when I put a disk in the drive, and PVD is active, it brings a new menu up, but i have no clue what any of the options mean in relation to adding the stuff. I've clicked on the options before but they assign the info to the wrong record or seem to do nothing. How can I insert a disk with several episodes of a series on it, then specify which record they are supposed to be assigned to as well as getting images from them and such?

Thanks
- Katleeh

rick.ca:

--- Quote ---I've clicked on the options before but they assign the info to the wrong record or seem to do nothing.
--- End quote ---

Have you specified regex in the File scanner configuration that will recognize the file names on the disk? What kind of disks are they? Is the scanner configured properly for files on your HDD? If so, is the same file naming convention used for files on disk?

katleeh:
No, they are not using the same naming convention. DVD+Rs and DVD-Rs. Um, what is regex? The scanner seems to work fine, but tries to assign all the files to the same episode, if that makes sense.

rick.ca:

--- Quote ---Um, what is regex?
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The file scanner uses Regular Expressions to extract information from file names. Search the forum for "regex" to learn more.

katleeh:
Okay, I've looked over various things but the regex coding seems rather confusing... On some of my disks I have several video files that are related to a specific thing whether its a series, individual's website, etc and I have them stored in one directory. First, is there a way to have it take all the files under a directory and then put them all under either an existing or a new series? Second, is there any way to get it to ask you where you want the files to be stored under? Its kind of annoying having to figure out a code when I just want it to scan the files and put them under a specific location numbering itself if there aren't any numbers.

I also have discs for series with various episodes on them and the file scanner usually hiccups and won't let me connect it to the stuff already in the database.

- katleeh

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