Correct steps to recreate screen captures

[oldschool 16]

Oohhh!! Hmmm, that is interesting, and it might require me to move my folders around. Right now I have a videos folder with a tv shows, home movies, movies, and "other" folders (theater intros) inside the main videos folder. It looks like I'm going to have to move some things around.

[oldschool 16]

I added a new home videos media library and then added my folder. When I refreshed my metadata, why on earth would MB3 try to search external sources for every single folder In my Home Videos library and try to detect the folders as movies or TV shows? Why would it download backdrops, primary images, and other metadata for a library I just designated as Home Videos?

 

This causes a lot of time to be lost cleaning up after mB3. I think it would be safe to default any folders under the Home Videos library as Do Not Fetch external metadata, and just allow MB3 to create primary images if requested.

[Luke 42077]

you must not have designated it has home videos. or there is a bug. can you post a screenshot?

[oldschool 16]

On my phone right now. I'll post one when I get on my PC.

[oldschool 16]

When I updated to the latest server release, all of the primary images for my home videos were erased. This isn't a huge problem, but I would like MB to recreate these images for me.

I locked the metadata to prevent future changes because sometimes MB3 detects a label for a home movie as a different movie and downloads a movie metadata and images that are wrong for the movie, and it also will rename it if it thinks it knows better. That's why I have it turned off, but I don't know if this is what is preventing the server from creating the images when I try to manually refresh the metadata.

I checked and the setting should create a primary image for movies, and the server considers these videos as movies (although it would be nice to get some better categorization for videos that will not be found in public servers). What am I doing wrong?

[Luke 42077]

that's correct. that's the reason. i would just unlock them and set the media folder type to home videos and you'll be fine

[oldschool 16]

How do I set that? I can't set it on the parent folder, and although it looks like I can now edit the display settings > treat image as setting, I had been told on the past that I cannot change/force this setting myself, MB3 will ignore your setting, etc. is this now editable? If so, shouldn't it give me options to choose from instead of allowing free text?

 

Also, Can I do a recursive setting to change all the subfolders to make them all home videos? I'm not sure how I can do what you're saying is possible.

 

Ps - thanks for your help Luke.

[ebr 16170]

It is done at the media folder level - when you define it in the configuration.

[oldschool 16]

Ok, I think I figured it out for everyone else's sake.

 

I unchecked the lock metadata on the top-level folder containing all my home videos, and then I turned off all the metadata fetchers except for the image field, and then when I refreshed metadata, it recreated the images.

 

I'm not sure if there is an actual setting for "home movies", but at least the metadata settings accomplish what I'm trying to achieve. Thanks Luke!

[ebr 16170]

[ebr 16170]

Or maybe they were already identified as movies from before you designated the media folder type.  If there were movie.xml files in there, that might have tripped it up.

[Abobader 3464]

heh @@ebr I think time to delete that "notifications.db"

[ebr 16170]

heh @@ebr I think time to delete that "notifications.db"

 

LOL.  Yeah, abo - that's my dev box that gets re-started about 100 times a day and I never read the notifications.