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Scan folders/file scanner confusion
nostra:
There will be a possibility to append another PVD database and copy/paste records from one database to another in 0.9.9.
For the patсh's problem: it is already possible to write a script that would generate a txt file with any information needed for each movie placing it near video file. Then a script like this http://www.videodb.info/forum_en/index.php?topic=904.0 could be used to retrieve the information from txt files.
rick.ca:
--- Quote ---There will be a possibility to append another PVD database and copy/paste records from one database to another in 0.9.9.
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Just to clarify... The append function would include all information, including custom fields not in the destination database? Will there be the option of excluding "personal" information like date seen, rating, comments, etc? If I wanted to share a subset of my database with another, I would delete unwanted records from a copy of my database, and then the copy would be appended to the other.
I presume copy/paste would only include the record copied, not any associated records—so the pasted records would need to be updated.
--- Quote ---For the path's problem...
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Let me outline this to see it I understand correctly...
* An export script would create a text file for each selected movie containing the necessary identifying information.
* An import script would import any information found a text file with a name identical to the movie file, for each selected movie.
* The import script would be added to the beginning, and the export script to the end, of of a batch file for importing movie information.
* The batch file would be selected for updating movie information in the Scan Results dialog.
So, if a new movie had been previously updated (by another user in a shared collection environment), the information necessary to ensure a fully automatic update would be found in the text files. If not previously updated, a text file would be created after the update was successfully completed.
It's not clear to me if this will work for posters as well. If a value (a URL, I presume) for a poster is read from the text file and saved to the database, will the existing poster plugins use this information to download the poster?
In the circumstances, this seems to be the most practical solution. All we need are some kind volunteers to write those scripts. ;)
patch:
--- Quote from: nostra on July 23, 2008, 02:00:35 pm ---For the patсh's problem: it is already possible to write a script that would generate a txt file with any information needed for each movie placing it near video file. Then a script like this http://www.videodb.info/forum_en/index.php?topic=904.0 could be used to retrieve the information from txt files.
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Excellent.
This should achieve the functionality I was looking for.
Thanks for implementing it.
patch:
--- Quote from: nostra on July 23, 2008, 02:00:35 pm ---a script like this http://www.videodb.info/forum_en/index.php?topic=904.0 could be used to retrieve the information from txt files.
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Might be some value in extending this to extract the imdb link out of .nfo if present and not previously defined in database or tag file (.txt)
nostra:
I do not have time now for improving the scripts. You can do this if you wish...
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