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<blockquote data-quote="Average" data-source="post: 527032" data-attributes="member: 91107">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 <a href="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/514695-post29.html" target="_blank">https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/514695-post29.html</a> or something similar, so i could export the cover, backdrop and nfo into these folders using <a href="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/moving-pictures-284/app-copy-artwork-details-movie-folder-71649/" target="_blank">https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/moving-pictures-284/app-copy-artwork-details-movie-folder-71649/</a>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.aviNot quiet sure on how the database works etc, so any help would be greatly appreciated.Cheers</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Average, post: 527032, member: 91107"] 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 [URL="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/514695-post29.html"]https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/514695-post29.html[/URL] or something similar, so i could export the cover, backdrop and nfo into these folders using [URL="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/moving-pictures-284/app-copy-artwork-details-movie-folder-71649/"]https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/moving-pictures-284/app-copy-artwork-details-movie-folder-71649/[/URL] 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. Cheers [/QUOTE]

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