2011-11-16, 15:28
I know this has been proposed/asked on and off during the last years. I am just wondering why it hasn't been done before...
The situation is this:
It sometimes happens that you have to move a couple of previously scraped files to a different location (let's say to a bigger drive). The only way (I know of) currently is to edit the DB directly, change all file paths to their correct new location and then cleanup the DB (hoping all my shares are accesible at the time of cleanup )
Wouldn't an easy way to help with this be to have an plugin/functionality that checks if a movie already exists in the DB (by comparing it's metadata) and then instead of adding a new instance modify the existing entry to reflect the new location. This function could also ask the user what should be done (add new entry, correct old entry, correct all entrys and don't ask again for this library update).
I know MovingPictures does this for MediaPortal...is there a reason it never was done for XBMC? Or am I just wrong in assuming that this is a common problem?
The situation is this:
It sometimes happens that you have to move a couple of previously scraped files to a different location (let's say to a bigger drive). The only way (I know of) currently is to edit the DB directly, change all file paths to their correct new location and then cleanup the DB (hoping all my shares are accesible at the time of cleanup )
Wouldn't an easy way to help with this be to have an plugin/functionality that checks if a movie already exists in the DB (by comparing it's metadata) and then instead of adding a new instance modify the existing entry to reflect the new location. This function could also ask the user what should be done (add new entry, correct old entry, correct all entrys and don't ask again for this library update).
I know MovingPictures does this for MediaPortal...is there a reason it never was done for XBMC? Or am I just wrong in assuming that this is a common problem?