[therealjoeblow]

I have a large collection of movies I want to move from one physical location to another, all of which have already been scraped, and many of which I've manually updated thumbs/covers and fanart for.

Can I move these somehow and avoid having to rescrape the data and lose the changes I've made already? I tried a small sample of the files and XBMC finds the files at the new location, but doesn't reassociate them with the data already in the database, it refreshes it from scratch, leaving the old data as disassociated duplicates that I have to remove by cleaning the library.

Many thanks
The REAL Joe

[JustinAiken]

If you export the library in the settings menu, you'll save everything but watched status.

[therealjoeblow]

Thanks, but I don't think that's exactly what I meant. I don't just want to save the existing library, I want to move the files from say

c:\Movies\*.* to

smb://moviearchive/hd/*.*

If I export the library, it's just going to save the old paths isn't it?

Cheers
The REAL Joe

[JustinAiken]

If you export the library, it will save little .nfo files along with the artwork for every show/movie; that way when you add the new source and rescrape it it will be near-instant instead of slow...

[KidKiwi]

You could look for the path in your dB file and change that, then replace the existing file with the updated one.

Make sure you back up the dB file first.

[therealjoeblow]

If you export the library, it will save little .nfo files along with the artwork for every show/movie; that way when you add the new source and rescrape it it will be near-instant instead of slow...

Aha... gotcha! I didn't realize that would export the .nfo's and artwork, which is exactly what I was looking to do. Thanks for the input, much appreciated!

The REAL Joe

[a931048]

If you are comfortable with SQL http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=HOW-TO:_Use_...base-files