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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guzzi" data-source="post: 1091886" data-attributes="member: 55213">Welcome to the "other side" <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />It was simply a regression, when we introduced setup of clients/central configs into the setup wizard - MF should not need anything else installed, but no testers noticed the issue, as we didn't try the fully clean install (the missing directories had been there from the past there already).For sure it is not meant for ppl who simply want a "movie starter" - but there is a lot of simpler alternatives e.g. MovingPictures, that address this.On the other hand: Once you've done a proper setup with everything you like, you probably don't want to miss many of the features after that. Even for me it is sometimes interesting to read the wiki to remember some stuff in there - lolGUI appearance also depends a lot by the skin of course (if or if not a feature is visible in the GUI).Re menus: Already tried to make it easier by introducing "levels"/submenus - and there is a tracker entry for some improvements <a href="https://code.google.com/p/my-films/issues/detail?id=360" target="_blank">here</a> - so if there are good ideas, you could simply comment them there.It very much depends on the grabber script used. If you use IMDB-OFDB grabber script (which is the most complete for german users) - that one is indeed horribly slow, as it does a lot of lookups to sub pages and alternative sites. IMDB-Full is similar. If you want a quicker import, you could use e.g. the simple IMDB-script - which makes sure, you get the IMDB id into the DB - and then at a later time update the catalog with e.g. IMDB-OFDB grabber over night.as you have IMDB-IDs within the movie name, you'll always get perfect matches, which makes import easy from that perspective.Beside that, the importer does not support threading, which would speed up the import of course. I usually don't do the imports on the htpc anyway - I do them on my desktop with the AMCupdater standalone version, so it does not affect the use of the HTPC.If things should import really fast: Disable internet lookup - and/or even mediainfo - in this case, it should only import the movies with IMDB-ID and the local search name, which is very fast - but I think noone want's that, as you'd miss all movie and media info - which makes usage of the plugin useless until you updated all that data...</blockquote>

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