2012-02-25, 16:52
I've been sitting here trying to decide if I should file a bug report or a feature suggestion regarding this...
I use the library export function to a single file for a backup when switching between builds quite often - I like my media share as it is currently, with just the media and no nfos/thumbnails/etc, and haven't really tried (and don't want to use) exporting all information to the shares themselves, so I'm unsure how that behaves.
Exporting/importing works perfectly for me and I'm very happy, but...
I have a problem with exporting video information when the title contains the ":" character. Video information is quite happily stored in a large .xml file without issue, the problem is with thumbnails and fanart.
Media files are named "Video_Title_Year[_fanart]".tbn/jpg during the export, which isn't a problem on my linux file system - Not so great on my windows desktop (that isn't running xbmc, just storing the export). Copying over the export folder (exporting to a single 'file' is a lie! ) to my desktop exhibits strange behaviour, and copying this export back to a new system results in the loss of thumbnails and fanart for any media with the ":" character in its title.
My workaround is to ssh into my htpc and tar the export folder into an archive (tar -cvf), which is easy to copy about and restore (after un-tarring) irrelevant of file system.
As I don't run xbmc on windows, I'm quite interested to know how the export feature differs, as I can't see how this would work.
Anyway, my suggestion is that the 'Video Library Export - Single File' option does exactly that (and not to a 'single folder'), and the import function is changed to allow the import of this resulting file.
I doubt it's too useful as I suspect that the OS plays little part in this, but I'm running openelec builds on my machines - I'll happily provide any logs or further information if required, but assume(!) that this is reproducible on any system (again, windows?) and only requires media with ":" in the title.
I use the library export function to a single file for a backup when switching between builds quite often - I like my media share as it is currently, with just the media and no nfos/thumbnails/etc, and haven't really tried (and don't want to use) exporting all information to the shares themselves, so I'm unsure how that behaves.
Exporting/importing works perfectly for me and I'm very happy, but...
I have a problem with exporting video information when the title contains the ":" character. Video information is quite happily stored in a large .xml file without issue, the problem is with thumbnails and fanart.
Media files are named "Video_Title_Year[_fanart]".tbn/jpg during the export, which isn't a problem on my linux file system - Not so great on my windows desktop (that isn't running xbmc, just storing the export). Copying over the export folder (exporting to a single 'file' is a lie! ) to my desktop exhibits strange behaviour, and copying this export back to a new system results in the loss of thumbnails and fanart for any media with the ":" character in its title.
My workaround is to ssh into my htpc and tar the export folder into an archive (tar -cvf), which is easy to copy about and restore (after un-tarring) irrelevant of file system.
As I don't run xbmc on windows, I'm quite interested to know how the export feature differs, as I can't see how this would work.
Anyway, my suggestion is that the 'Video Library Export - Single File' option does exactly that (and not to a 'single folder'), and the import function is changed to allow the import of this resulting file.
I doubt it's too useful as I suspect that the OS plays little part in this, but I'm running openelec builds on my machines - I'll happily provide any logs or further information if required, but assume(!) that this is reproducible on any system (again, windows?) and only requires media with ":" in the title.