The same tvshow.nfo files being updated over, and over, and over?

[nmkaufman 50]

I'm currently on version 4.4.3.0, but I first noticed this problem almost a year ago while I was using Resilio to do off-site backups.

It seems like there's a bug where each time a monitored folder scans, the same .nfo file gets updated.

It seems to pick a file at random. Right now, for me, it's 'Space - 1999\tvshow.nfo' and 'The Woody Woodpecker Show\tvshow.nfo'

Both of these files get their modified dates updated every few minutes. I'm only assuming it's each time the folder gets scanned.

In the past it's been different shows, but it always seems to be a tvshow.nfo file.

I'm only noticing this because I back my server up every night, and have file versioning enabled. I have hundreds of copies of these same files.

The content appears untouched (they are duplicates) just with the dates modified, over and over.

 

It looks like maybe it has to do with themoviedb being enabled for tvshows, and it throwing an error.

 

Quote

2020-06-11 21:18:11.297 Info LibraryMonitor: Space - 1999 (E:\Videos\TV\Space - 1999) will be refreshed.
2020-06-11 21:18:11.408 Info HttpClient: GET https://api.themoviedb.org/3/tv/72760?api_key=xxx&append_to_response=credits,images,keywords,external_ids,videos,content_ratings&language=en&include_image_language=en,null
2020-06-11 21:18:11.437 Error App: Error in TheMovieDb

 

I'll try disabling themoviedb for tvshows, and see if it helps.  Am I going to miss out on anything by doing that?

Edited June 12, 2020 by nmkaufman

[Luke 42083]

Hi there, please go over an example and attach the emby server log. thanks.

[nmkaufman 50]

It actually hasn't happened since I disabled TMDB, but if it starts again I'll grab a log.

[Happy2Play 9783]

On 6/12/2020 at 7:19 AM, nmkaufman said:

I'm currently on version 4.4.3.0, but I first noticed this problem almost a year ago while I was using Resilio to do off-site backups.

It seems like there's a bug where each time a monitored folder scans, the same .nfo file gets updated.

It seems to pick a file at random. Right now, for me, it's 'Space - 1999\tvshow.nfo' and 'The Woody Woodpecker Show\tvshow.nfo'

Both of these files get their modified dates updated every few minutes. I'm only assuming it's each time the folder gets scanned.

In the past it's been different shows, but it always seems to be a tvshow.nfo file.

I'm only noticing this because I back my server up every night, and have file versioning enabled. I have hundreds of copies of these same files.

The content appears untouched (they are duplicates) just with the dates modified, over and over.

 

It looks like maybe it has to do with themoviedb being enabled for tvshows, and it throwing an error.

Quote

2020-06-11 21:18:11.297 Info LibraryMonitor: Space - 1999 (E:\Videos\TV\Space - 1999) will be refreshed.
2020-06-11 21:18:11.408 Info HttpClient: GET https://api.themoviedb.org/3/tv/72760?api_key=xxx&append_to_response=credits,images,keywords,external_ids,videos,content_ratings&language=en&include_image_language=en,null
2020-06-11 21:18:11.437 Error App: Error in TheMovieDb

 

I'll try disabling themoviedb for tvshows, and see if it helps.  Am I going to miss out on anything by doing that?

The issue here is "72760" is a bad TMDB id.  The external TMDB id should be 134.  So just change the externalid in the series metadata.  This is the issue for "Space 1999".

[nmkaufman 50]

The TMDB links for both shows were dead, too.

 

Definitely looks like outdated IDs were the culprit.