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English => Support => Topic started by: SkinnyV on December 08, 2010, 08:51:25 pm

Title: Auto linking movie title to file
Post by: SkinnyV on December 08, 2010, 08:51:25 pm

Is there a way to automatically scan and link to the file on the HDD? Like PVD would take all the movie title one by one and compare to the file found on the hard disk and link to the one that is the file that is the most similar to the movie title from the PVD database?

Thanks

Title: Re: Auto linking movie title to file
Post by: rick.ca on December 08, 2010, 09:45:25 pm

Tools>Scan folders...

Title: Re: Auto linking movie title to file
Post by: SkinnyV on December 09, 2010, 01:50:00 am

But it says Scan folder for new movie /path, won't it be adding a lot of movie it would find or duplicate?

Title: Re: Auto linking movie title to file
Post by: rick.ca on December 09, 2010, 02:14:12 am

No.

Title: Re: Auto linking movie title to file
Post by: SkinnyV on December 09, 2010, 03:10:07 am

I tried but 95% of the result show ''add new movie'' as the action...

Title: Re: Auto linking movie title to file
Post by: rick.ca on December 09, 2010, 06:43:46 am

You haven't configured it with regex that recognize whatever file naming convention you're using.

Title: Re: Auto linking movie title to file
Post by: SkinnyV on December 28, 2010, 05:50:18 pm

What if there is no definite naming convention? I have thousand of download files with no fix convention and I'm trying to fidn a way to scan the file name and compare to my PVD movie database and link the file that are most likely related to the PVD entry. Last time I tried to use the scan file feature, it messed up alot of stuff and created alot of new entry.

Title: Re: Auto linking movie title to file
Post by: rick.ca on December 28, 2010, 10:55:50 pm

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What if there is no definite naming convention?

The software doesn't perform miracles. You have a choice of changing file names so the regex can extract a correct title, changing the regex so a wider variety of patterns are recognized, or manually recording every File path.