No way to force a full rescan of video paths?

>>X<< · 2011-07-27 14:50

I'm sure the DEV's would welcome a patch !

X3lectric · 2011-07-27 15:06

>>X<< Wrote:I'm sure the DEV's would welcome a patch !

And everyone is or has to be a coder!

outatouch0 · 2011-07-27 19:32

AbMagFab Wrote:I've figured out how to delete the .DB file and do a full rescan, but that's sort of drastic and not very automated.

Please tell me how to do that, its faster than re-installing when I can't get it right. I keep changing my library setup...

super_sobbie · 2011-07-27 20:15

outatouch0 Wrote:Please tell me how to do that, its faster than re-installing when I can't get it right. I keep changing my library setup...

look in your user folder (different for xp, windows 7, and linux) under app/roam/xbmc/userdata/database/* << in that folder has the database files. look for the video one and delete.

then start up xbmc, add your locations and rescan.

Smile

Hope that helps
SoBBie

>>X<< · 2011-07-27 20:19

If you just delete your db you don't need to add any source again you just need to set content on them

super_sobbie · 2011-07-27 20:58

Sorry >>X<< you are correct Blush

. I just thought I would answer real quick.

But if he does:

outatouch0 Wrote:I keep changing my library setup...

He may need to change his directory paths as well. Big Grin

Thanks,
SoBBie

outatouch0 · 2011-07-27 22:38

Thanks, I really need to stop changing my mind is more like it Frown

pedram · 2011-12-05 13:55

I don't think you need to delete the DB. Just set the content on the folder to "none", and it'll ask to delete all the content from that folder from the library. Then just set it back to Movies and it'll scan everything in that folder again. If you have one or two high level folders for your content, this method works pretty well.

>>X<< · 2011-12-05 14:42

pedram Wrote:I don't think you need to delete the DB. Just set the content on the folder to "none", and it'll ask to delete all the content from that folder from the library. Then just set it back to Movies and it'll scan everything in that folder again. If you have one or two high level folders for your content, this method works pretty well.

When you do that it doesn't delete the db and not everything gets removed from the db either and this ends up in the new db

pedram · 2011-12-06 03:44

Why would it not delete everything from that path when it asks if that's what you want to do? The OP asked how rescan something from a video path and that would do it.
Anyway, this worked well for me because I have two top level folders for movies (one HD and one SD) so all I had to do was change the content on those two and it rescanned all my movies.

I guess the deletion of DB method would be a better option if you had lots of different top level paths for your videos.

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super_sobbie Senior Member Posts: 144 Joined: Oct 2008 Reputation: 0	2011-07-27 20:58 Post: #16 Sorry >>X<< you are correct . I just thought I would answer real quick. But if he does: outatouch0 Wrote:I keep changing my library setup... He may need to change his directory paths as well. Thanks, SoBBie
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pedram Member Posts: 97 Joined: Oct 2009 Reputation: 0	2011-12-05 13:55 Post: #18 I don't think you need to delete the DB. Just set the content on the folder to "none", and it'll ask to delete all the content from that folder from the library. Then just set it back to Movies and it'll scan everything in that folder again. If you have one or two high level folders for your content, this method works pretty well.
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