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The director is always fetched. It's part of the GetMovieInfo processing. All of the other actor information and the roles for each actor is now optional for both the first fetch and refreshing. This is the bit that takes a very long time and, I thought, would be good to make optional. It's not just me who thinks this, CyberSimian said the same thing earlier in this thread.

However, should you want to fetch all of the actor information for a movie or for all of your movies, you can now do so either using the refresh option or using the Lookup option:

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In the screen above setting actor data OFF/ON affects both Skip files already in the database and Refresh existing files. When you choose to refresh, and you haven't chosen to use nfo scraper, you only have to click once to refresh all of your existing movies (in the movieinfo table).

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Notice that the actor data checkbox is now exists in the scan and editor tabs; checking either of them activates the other checkbox as well. I did this so you don't have to keep switching back to the scan tab to change that setting. Both checkboxes are defaulted to OFF. So you have to actively set it to enable not fetching actor data. It could be argued that setting the default to ON might be better though. Perhaps users could indicate which option they prefer?

<blockquote data-quote="Anthony Vaughan" data-source="post: 1286928" data-attributes="member: 153283">The director is always fetched. It's part of the GetMovieInfo processing. All of the other actor information and the roles for each actor is now optional for both the first fetch and refreshing. This is the bit that takes a very long time and, I thought, would be good to make optional. It's not just me who thinks this, CyberSimian said the same thing earlier in this thread.However, should you want to fetch all of the actor information for a movie or for all of your movies, you can now do so either using the refresh option or using the Lookup option:[ATTACH=full]209429[/ATTACH]In the screen above setting actor data OFF/ON affects both Skip files already in the database and Refresh existing files. When you choose to refresh, and you haven't chosen to use nfo scraper, you only have to click once to refresh all of your existing movies (in the movieinfo table).[ATTACH=full]209430[/ATTACH]Notice that the actor data checkbox is now exists in the scan and editor tabs; checking either of them activates the other checkbox as well. I did this so you don't have to keep switching back to the scan tab to change that setting. Both checkboxes are defaulted to OFF. So you have to actively set it to enable not fetching actor data. It could be argued that setting the default to ON might be better though. Perhaps users could indicate which option they prefer?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Anthony Vaughan, post: 1286928, member: 153283"] The director is always fetched. It's part of the GetMovieInfo processing. All of the other actor information and the roles for each actor is now optional for both the first fetch and refreshing. This is the bit that takes a very long time and, I thought, would be good to make optional. It's not just me who thinks this, CyberSimian said the same thing earlier in this thread. However, should you want to fetch all of the actor information for a movie or for all of your movies, you can now do so either using the refresh option or using the Lookup option: [ATTACH type="full"]209429[/ATTACH] In the screen above setting actor data OFF/ON affects both Skip files already in the database and Refresh existing files. When you choose to refresh, and you haven't chosen to use nfo scraper, you only have to click once to refresh all of your existing movies (in the movieinfo table). [ATTACH type="full"]209430[/ATTACH] Notice that the actor data checkbox is now exists in the scan and editor tabs; checking either of them activates the other checkbox as well. I did this so you don't have to keep switching back to the scan tab to change that setting. Both checkboxes are defaulted to OFF. So you have to actively set it to enable not fetching actor data. It could be argued that setting the default to ON might be better though. Perhaps users could indicate which option they prefer? [/QUOTE]