How to avoid directory name getting scraped?
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Hello,

in my XBMC (Frodo beta 1), my main source for TVshows is defined as /mnt/NAS_videos/TVshows/, but I have defined some extra sources, e.g. I have /mnt/NAS_videos/Cooking for culinary programs, etc.
All sources are scraped with thetvdb.com

Now the issue I have is that also the directory name /mnt/NAS_videos/Cooking/ is getting scraped and a search for a title name is run:

Code:
22:04:12 T:2967464816   DEBUG: VideoInfoScanner: No NFO file found. Using title search for '/mnt/NAS_videos/Cooking/'
22:04:12 T:2967464816   DEBUG: FindMovie: Searching for 'Cooking' using The TVDB scraper (path: '/home/xbmc/.xbmc/addons/metadata.tvdb.com', content: 'tvshows', version: '1.4.2')
22:04:12 T:2967464816   DEBUG: scraper: CreateSearchUrl returned <url>http://www.thetvdb.com/api/GetSeries.php?seriesname=cooking&amp;language=en</url>

Now, unfortunately, there is a show named 'Pro at cooking' that matches the search, and because of that, I end up with a 'fake' show added to the list of tv shows.

How can I avoid that XBMC even tries to scrape for that directory name (but it does for the shows contained in it)?
I tried to create a nfo file as /mnt/NAS_videos/Cooking/.nfo and one as /mnt/NAS_videos/Cooking.nfo to intercept the search but it did not work.
Or should I play with the advancedsettings.xml ?
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#2
You bring up the context menu for your TV shows source, select "Change content", enable "Exclude path from library updates" and specify the path for your "Cooking" folder.
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#3
Thanks, but it didn't work. I noticed also that as soon as XBMC was detecting that /mnt/NAS_videos/Cooking/ was associated with a specific show, it was not even trying to look at subdirectories for other possible shows names.
As a workaround, I changed my container directory as CookingTV, so to avoid the false match.
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