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<blockquote data-quote="RoChess" data-source="post: 822295" data-attributes="member: 18896">When you re-add the same movie and you want to avoid full re-import you have to add it super quick. I personally favor the way of closing MovPic, put the same files in place and then launch MovPic config direct (not via MePo config) and verify that they do not appear inside the importer showing as fresh import, but that their path got updated to point to the new location.However since you can have multiple versions of the same movie installed, MovPic uses a hash to decide if the file is the same. The hash is (AFAIK) a SHA1 hash on a small data chunk of the mediafile itself. So if you did not replace the missing/lost ones with an exact duplicate then the hash will not match and it will be seen a new movie. This is also why MovPic can detect filename renames easy, because the data-chunk based hash doesn't change then.So you might be forced to re-import everything if you are unable to get the exact files restored, which if you use English titles and English details, is a good time to switch over to the IMDb+ scraper <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite6" alt=":cool:" title="Cool&nbsp; &nbsp; :cool:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="RoChess, post: 822295, member: 18896"] When you re-add the same movie and you want to avoid full re-import you have to add it super quick. I personally favor the way of closing MovPic, put the same files in place and then launch MovPic config direct (not via MePo config) and verify that they do not appear inside the importer showing as fresh import, but that their path got updated to point to the new location. However since you can have multiple versions of the same movie installed, MovPic uses a hash to decide if the file is the same. The hash is (AFAIK) a SHA1 hash on a small data chunk of the mediafile itself. So if you did not replace the missing/lost ones with an exact duplicate then the hash will not match and it will be seen a new movie. This is also why MovPic can detect filename renames easy, because the data-chunk based hash doesn't change then. So you might be forced to re-import everything if you are unable to get the exact files restored, which if you use English titles and English details, is a good time to switch over to the IMDb+ scraper :cool: [/QUOTE]

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