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geoslake:
Hi

I just downloaded this great app, thank btw.

I'd like to use it in portable mode (as all of my apps), as i would like to use it on an external drive (so letter may change), and all of my movies to be in a PVD subfolder (so that it always find it).

So I start pvd using portable.bat, but how do I set my movies folder to a relative path ?
They are all in a "video" folder, so i expect to be able to enter ".\video\" or "video" as my video folder, which i did in the "folders" preferences submenu.

Problem is it doesn't seem to refresh properly. When I use CTRL+F it requires me to select which folders should be scanned, while i just want to update the current one...
I'd like my database to be automatically refreshed though...

Also, it seems it tries to group things, even though i disabled this in the options...


Thanks

nostra:

--- Quote ---They are all in a "video" folder, so i expect to be able to enter ".\video\" or "video" as my video folder
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You are able to enter such paths into the File Path field. The video files will be played correctly and PVD will be able to tell if the files exist, delete them etc. What exactly and where do you expect to happen?


--- Quote ---Also, it seems it tries to group things, even though i disabled this in the options...
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What things???

geoslake:

--- Quote ---You are able to enter such paths into the File Path field. The video files will be played correctly and PVD will be able to tell if the files exist, delete them etc. What exactly and where do you expect to happen?
--- End quote ---

I need to run the "find movies removed from hd" then the "scan folders for new movies" commands to update the database, if i dont it still lists deleted movies, but thats okay, the problem is that I need to specify the folder i want to scan EVERYTIME i do a scan (and i do it a lot), why ?
Its obvious that its the folder already specified in the file paths options...


--- Quote ---What things???
--- End quote ---

I was talking about episode and dvd 1, 2 etc grouping, i dont want that at all, and i still got some grouping, possible to avoid it totally ?

Thanks

nostra:

--- Quote ---I need to run the "find movies removed from hd" then the "scan folders for new movies" commands to update the database, if i dont it still lists deleted movies, but thats okay, the problem is that I need to specify the folder i want to scan EVERYTIME i do a scan (and i do it a lot), why ?
--- End quote ---

Now I understand. These functions do not work with relative paths indeed. I will add this to my TODO list, thou.


--- Quote ---I was talking about episode and dvd 1, 2 etc grouping, i dont want that at all, and i still got some grouping, possible to avoid it totally ?
--- End quote ---

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geoslake:

--- Quote ---Now I understand. These functions do not work with relative paths indeed. I will add this to my TODO list, thou.
--- End quote ---

Great !!
Also, I just used pvd along with the movies on my htpc, on which the external hdd those are on has been given another letter.
Everything seems to work - thanks to portable mode - BUT the movies posters (i defined a poster folder in the options, instead of using the database to store them).
I checked in the options, the drive letter was indeed changed for that (posters folder) as well, but it didnt work for some reason :(


--- Quote ---Select in main menu: View -> Plain view
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Its already set-up this way, but it still groups things.
I have those files for instance :

Uguf Dvd 1.1.avi
Uguf Dvd 1.2.avi
Uguf Dvd 2.1.avi
Uguf Dvd 2.2.avi
Uguf Dvd 2.3.avi

Pvd lists those as :

Uguf Dvd 1
+ Uguf Dvd 2
            1. #1.1
            2. #1.2
            3. #1.3

It doenst see uguf dvd 1.2
(neither does it see 5.2 - as i have more of those)

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