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Hi, I currently have approx 1100 movies all in one folder on an external 1 tb harddrive and was planning on sorting them into folders based on the file names via a batch script https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/514695-post29.html or something similar, so i could export the cover, backdrop and nfo into these folders using https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/moving-pictures-284/app-copy-artwork-details-movie-folder-71649/

However im sure this would disrupt my moving pictures database.

Seeing as there would be a clear trend to the changing of the paths for each movie, i was wondering to avoid having to re-add all 1100 movies and possibly loose watchedtags/custom changes to tittles/cover/fanart

would there be some way to automatically edit the databse file to batch change the paths to each file according to some mask?
eg at a hierarchy of /move_file_name_minus_extension/moviefilename.avi

Not quiet sure on how the database works etc, so any help would be greatly appreciated.
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rekenaar

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    Hi Average :)

    If you do not want to rescan database, I suggest you wait for next MovingPictures release which will contain Issue317.
     

    kiwijunglist

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    Agree with above, new version of Moving Pictures (shouldn't be far away) will support moving the files without a rescan.
     

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