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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doveman" data-source="post: 813489" data-attributes="member: 67412">Having just installed MyFilms again, I'd like to give my input on what I found confusing (after the Wizard had finished, that bit was straightforward). Note I'm using AMC Unofficial, so some things might be different, although I don't think I'm using any Extended Fields (in fact I can't see any extra fields compared to normal AMC).On the General tab:Item for Storage File Info: Source (now I've read the Wiki I know what this is, but perhaps it could be renamed to something clearer, like "Field containing filename". The Wiki suggests that URL is commonly used for this, which doesn't make much sense as AMC stores the path\filename in Source)Scan media on start: unticked (wouldn't most users want this ticked, so that MyFilms can show which films are and are not available to play?)Only Exact Matches: unticked (this isn't explained in the Wiki. I'm guessing having it unticked means that if the filename is something like "moviename (year) [Director's cut]" it will still be able to find and grab the correct film details, but I'm not sure)Search in Sub Folders: unticked (wouldn't most users want this ticked?)Ant Identification Item: boxes empty (this isn't explained in the Wiki and I have no idea what these are for!)On the Trailer tab:DB Item for storing Trailer Info: Borrower (I want to use this field in AMC to keep track of who I've lent films to. I'm not sure there's another field spare to use as default instead (URL perhaps?), but currently it would seem to mess up the user's lending list, so I would like to at least be able to disable this and just do without trailers).On the Update tab:Field used for Watched Status: Checked (I don't see a Checked field in AMC, so I'm not sure what this refers to)Enable database deletion options after movie is watched: unticked (I don't want to be able to delete movies from the database after watching them, but what does "Update db entry and keep movie file" do?)On the Internet Grabbing tab:Script: IMDB.xml (can the IMDB+ script be used here? It has some major benefits (short synopsis, so no spoilers, renaming series' of films and it would be nice if MyFilms and MovingPictures would both show the same details)Don't use default script (always ask): ticked (wouldn't it be better to have this unticked? Do most users really want to choose the script each time. Is this setting per movie or per grabbing session?)Try to find best match automatically (how well does this work, as obviously it's nice to be able to have AMCUpdater/MyFilms grab the info whilst I go and do something else, but if I then have to go through the list manually changing a lot of mistakes it might be quicker just to sit there and check each one as it runs)Title Search Handling: Folder Name + Internet Lookup (I mostly have genre\moviename.avi but sometimes have genre\moviename\moviename.mkv, so I'm not sure what I should use here?)Purge Orphan Records: unticked (if this is ticked, will it delete from the database anything that's not found on the HD each time AMCUpdater/MyFilms is run?)On the Artwork tab:Cover Images Path: E:\Media\MediaPortal\thumbs\MyFilms (this is where I've saved my .xml file and where AMC stores the images)Picture Prefix: AMC Unofficial_ (I've set AMC to use no prefix, so can I clear this?)Picture Handling: Relative Path (says cannot be modifed but I can change it to Full Path, I presume Relative is correct for my situation?)In AMC, under Preference - Picture Importation, I've set "Copy picture to catalog folder, and link it to catalog" and "Use formatted movie title" (with this set to "Keep original name" I either get filenames with only the catalog number, or something even stranger like "mv5bmtc2mdiymjc3n15bml5banbnxkftztcwnzqzodawmq@@._v1._sx327_sy475_.jpg") and unticked "Use catalog name as prefix for the picture name"."Use formatted movie title" gives names like "Aliens ('Alien 2' - Japan (English title)).jpg" and "Alien 3 ('Alien³' - USA (original title)).jpg" which I'm not sure are compatible with AMCUpdater/MyFilms.Once I know how to use it properly, I will use AMCUpdater mostly, but I need to know that if I open the database in AMC, it's going to a) be able to open the images created by AMCUpdater and b) if I add a film, it will save the new image with the right filename for MyFilms.In AMC, under Preferences - Folders I also can set the folder to use for "Load movie picture", but this doesn't seem to make any difference, so I presume AMC stores the path to the images in the database somewhere or just doesn't need this setting if the images are in the same folder as the .xml.Incidentally, I don't think it's possible to share images between AMC/Myfilms and MovingPictures at the moment, as MovingPictures stores it's images in thumbs\MovingPictures\Covers\Fullsize for the covers and thumbs\MovingPictures\Backdrops\Fullsize for the fanart and uses filenames like "{Another.Earth} [-xxxxxxxx].jpg" and each film can have multiple images with different numbers for -xxxxxxxx. Whilst MyFilms could be pointed to those folders, I don't think AMC can (maybe using Junction Points, but I haven't really got the hang of those yet) and the filenames are incompatible anyway.I currently have a junction point from C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\thumbs to E:\Media\MediaPortal\thumbs, which works fine and keeps my thumbs safe if something happens to my C: drive (or I mess up when updating/uninstalling MP!). I could only get it work if the folder on E: was named thumbs though, as it appears to insist on using the name of the destination folder (I thought I might be able to redirect C:\...\thumbs to something like E:\Media\artwork but I haven't found a way to do that yet).</blockquote>

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