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Ignoring subdirectory doesn't work - wfaulk - 2012-08-12 I have a video source that is an SMB share named "TV". Its content is set to "(TV shows)". Inside that share is a directory named "Mystery Science Theater 3000". It contains a bunch of video files with filenames that are understood by XBMC. Importantly, it contains multiple seasons worth of shows. Inside that directory is a subdirectory named "sorted", and inside that subdirectory are a number of directories with names like "Season 01", "Season 02", etc. Inside each of the "Season" directories are symlinks to the video files two levels up. (MacOS and smbclient can both see that they're symlinks. I don't know if XBMC does, and I don't know how to find out, or if it makes any difference.) Here's a representation of the directory structure:
The problem is that, by default, XBMC includes both the video and the symlink in the library. What I would like to do is just have XBMC ignore the entire "sorted" directory, but it's not working for me. Here's what I've tried:
What am I doing wrong? I'm running XBMC 11.0 under Ubuntu 10.10 x86_32. RE: Ignoring subdirectory doesn't work - jmarshall - 2012-08-12 Exclude path from library updates just means it won't be scanned on automatic updates. It WILL be scanned if you do a manual update. This should probably be made more explicit. Either way, just changing the content type on that to "None" and removing the items at that point SHOULD do the trick with all further scans. Cheers, Jonathan RE: Ignoring subdirectory doesn't work - wfaulk - 2012-08-12 I think my head just exploded. Is there any way to, um, manually kick off an automatic update? And setting the content type to "None" didn't solve the problem. I finally resorted to using an excludetvshowsfromscan entry. (Thanks, KemoNine at #XBMC!) |