Help: Moving Pictures crashing since adding new network shares (1 Viewer)

[erichzann]

Hi all,

I replace my watch folders the other day after rebuilding my server.

However, ever since doing this, MovPic configuration crashes as soon as opening and MP crashes as soon as I access MovPics.

I have a feeling that if I could remove my watch folders and re-add them, then everything would be fine. However, since the config crashes I can't do this.

I have attached the logs. Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks

 

[RoChess]

Rename your movingpictures.db3 to something else, it will then be recreated 'empty', so you can add new import folders to the proper location.

 

[erichzann]

Great. That's stop it crashing. Is there any way of rescuing the old DB. There were 500+ films' worth of metadata in there?

 

[RoChess]

MovingPictures stores HDD serial numbers and such when it imports to keep things properly seperated/identified, so when you said "rebuild" and you replaced (or reorganized) harddisks, then that info doesn't matches up and is causing your problems (well one of them anyway).

You can 'fix' that with SQLite editing tools, but it can be a nightmare and cause other problems if more was altered/changed when you rebuild.

For most users that have to ask how SQLite database tools works, the best course of action is most of the time to bite the bullet and start from scratch with a fresh import after first configuring MovPic the way they like it.

If you indeed plan to start over and were used to manually correcting/approving a lot of movies during import with your other scraper selection, you could give IMDb+ a try (support for UK-ratings and British-English titles)

But if you want to recover your old data at all cost, I can give you some pointers/instructions otherwise. But keep in mind that if you have a fast system that a single movie can import as fast as in under a second and on the slowest system with a ton of IMDb+ options I've only seen it take up to a maximum of 10seconds (it takes 3 seconds on mine). So on 500 movies, you would look at around 500 seconds (less then 9 minutes) up to a maximum of 5000 seconds (little over an hour). But my experience is that you would be done in 25 minutes for 500 movies, and this includes obtaining details, covers and backdrops.

It can take much more time to figure out all the database fields that have to be adjusted to make it work again. You could be lucky and that it takes a few seconds to adjust the HDD-IDs, but you can also be unlucky and waste days to fix it and end up with an unstable end result.

 

[erichzann]

Thanks for taking the time to reply. I just let the db rebuild overnight in the end.

I have used imdb+ in the past and I took this opportunity to use it again.

Thanks