[step*ur*game*up]

Small problem.... but I would like to fix it if I could....

Ever since I upgraded to lion and started using FTP to share my videos to xbmc, my fanart.jpg and folder.jpg don't show up... Instead xbmc uses scrapers to import these things. I was wondering if somebody knew why and how I could get xbmc to scan the images that I already have and want to use..

my media files are set up on my external hard drive like this:

\Movies\
—-\MovieTitle\
—— MovieTitle.mkv
—— folder.jpg
—— fanart.jpg
—— movie-trailer.flv
—— title.nfo

\TV Shows\
—- \Show\
—— folder.jpg
—— fanart.jpg
——- \Season\
——— folder.jpg

this used to work for me over SMB... but now over FTP it isn't...

thank you in advance.

[Ned Scott]

Try the webDAV solution in the stickies.

[step*ur*game*up]

Try the webDAV solution in the stickies.

I tried that... and for some reason I can get my library to scan... but the movies don't play.... or they play sporadically.... I was all excited when I got the webDAV up and working because my library looked great... but then playback wasn't working well so I went back to FTP.

[nsviper]

I had same issue.

Stick this in your advancedsettings.xml and the fanart and folders will scrape from the local copy properly. It seems as a default its disabled for FTP to avoid hammering of the FTP server...

<advancedsettings>
<ftp>
<remotefanart>true</remotefanart>
<remotethumbs>true</remotethumbs>
</ftp>
</advancedsettings>

[step*ur*game*up]

I had same issue.

Stick this in your advancedsettings.xml and the fanart and folders will scrape from the local copy properly. It seems as a default its disabled for FTP to avoid hammering of the FTP server...

<advancedsettings>
<ftp>
<remotefanart>true</remotefanart>
<remotethumbs>true</remotethumbs>
</ftp>
</advancedsettings>

where do i find the advancedsettings.xml ? sorry.... noob... I'm good at following instructions tho.... thanks.

[step*ur*game*up]

i figured it out... ur fix worked great. THANK YOU!