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Movies Menu Item Missing - jgolde05 - 2013-08-17
Suddenly the 'Movies' menu item on the home menu is missing. I can't find any setting that allows me to get it back. Any thoughts?
RE: Movies Menu Item Missing - artrafael - 2013-08-17
Welcome to the XBMC forums.
Either you clobbered your video library or you enabled the setting: System/Settings > Appearance > Skin > - Settings > Home window Options > Hide - Movies (deselect this)
RE: Movies Menu Item Missing - jgolde05 - 2013-08-17
No, the hide isn't enabled. Should I just uninstall and reinstall?
RE: Movies Menu Item Missing - artrafael - 2013-08-17
Do you see a Library option displayed below the VIDEOS main menu option?
RE: Movies Menu Item Missing - jgolde05 - 2013-08-17
No, just Files and Add-ons
RE: Movies Menu Item Missing - artrafael - 2013-08-17
Then you don't currently have your movies scanned into your library. Did you previously have movies in your library? Are your movie files located on a removable or network (e.g., file server) drive? If yes, was the drive unavailable to XBMC when you last ran a Clean Library?
You can try running an Update Library to add the movies back to your library (ensure your movie files are accessible to XBMC).
RE: Movies Menu Item Missing - jgolde05 - 2013-08-17
I did previously have movies in the library. Now that I think about it, I did click the Clean Library and that's about the time it went away. It's like there is no library. I went to System...Settings...Video...Library and clicked Clean Library just now and it didn't do anything to bring back the library or Movies. If I go into Videos and just add the movies folder to the Files area, I can use that to get to the movies, but obviously that's not the way I want to do it...I want to use the Movies section.
RE: Movies Menu Item Missing - artrafael - 2013-08-17
Clean Library removes defunct items from the library, so if your Movies folder is somehow unavailable (e.g., drive is not accessible), then *all* movies in your library are deemed "defunct" and therefore removed. What you want to do now is to go to Videos > Files, locate the Movies folder, open its context menu (keyboard "c" or right mouse click), and select "Scan for new content".
RE: Movies Menu Item Missing - jgolde05 - 2013-08-18
Awesome, that did it! Thanks!
RE: Movies Menu Item Missing - luisvieyra - 2015-12-25
Hello, I've the same problem, I just update to the latest version of kodi 15.2 git 2015-10-19-02e7013 I go to home window options and under the hide main menu buttons the "Hide -Movies (Videos - library)" option its disabled (all letters in grey) , how I can ge that menu option again on my main manu?
thanks a lot