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scythe000, firstly make a copy of all your databases so that you can always revert to them in case of need.

You have to choose one of the HTPCs to act as your master. This will be the PC you mostly use to do your movie/series imports, etc. Copy the databases from your server to this PC. Do the changes in mediaportaldirs.xml so that the database (and thumbs if you want to) point to the local drive. If you are changing the thumbs folder to local as well, then you need to do changes in MediaPortal plugin, TV-Series plugin, etc so that the thumbs paths point to local drives.

For this master HTPC, the setup of MPSync should have the local database folder as the Client DB path and the Server DB path as the current win2k8 database path. The synchronization direction should be from Client -> Server. If you are synchronizing thumbs to a local drive, do same setup on the thumbs tab.

On your second HTPC (slave), you have to change mediaportaldirs.xml with local folders as well. The setup of MPSync should have the local database folder as the Client DB path and the Server DB path as the current win2k8 database path. This time the synchronization direction should be from Server -> Client. You do not need to copy the databases manually as the plugin will take care of this task. If you are synchronizing thumbs to a local drive, do same setup on the thumbs tab.

Start the synchronization on the slave HTPC so that the databases/thumbs are copied over from the server to your local PC. Once this is done, execute synchronization on master HTPC to see that no errors are encountered.

You should be ready to go!

<blockquote data-quote="m3rcury" data-source="post: 995996" data-attributes="member: 106370">scythe000, firstly make a copy of all your databases so that you can always revert to them in case of need.&nbsp;You have to choose one of the HTPCs to act as your master.&nbsp; This will be the PC you mostly use to do your movie/series imports, etc.&nbsp; Copy the databases from your server to this PC.&nbsp; Do the changes in mediaportaldirs.xml so that the database (and thumbs if you want to) point to the local drive.&nbsp; If you are changing the thumbs folder to local as well, then you need to do changes in MediaPortal plugin, TV-Series plugin, etc so that the thumbs paths point to local drives.&nbsp;For this master HTPC, the setup of MPSync should have the local database folder as the Client DB path and the Server DB path as the current win2k8 database path.&nbsp; The synchronization direction should be from Client -&gt; Server.&nbsp; If you are synchronizing thumbs to a local drive, do same setup on the thumbs tab.&nbsp;On your second HTPC (slave), you have to change mediaportaldirs.xml with local folders as well.&nbsp; The setup of MPSync should have the local database folder as the Client DB path and the Server DB path as the current win2k8 database path.&nbsp; This time the synchronization direction should be from Server -&gt; Client.&nbsp; You do not need to copy the databases manually as the plugin will take care of this task.&nbsp; If you are synchronizing thumbs to a local drive, do same setup on the thumbs tab.&nbsp;Start the synchronization on the slave HTPC so that the databases/thumbs are copied over from the server to your local PC.&nbsp; Once this is done, execute synchronization on master HTPC to see that no errors are encountered.&nbsp;You should be ready to go!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="m3rcury, post: 995996, member: 106370"] scythe000, firstly make a copy of all your databases so that you can always revert to them in case of need. You have to choose one of the HTPCs to act as your master. This will be the PC you mostly use to do your movie/series imports, etc. Copy the databases from your server to this PC. Do the changes in mediaportaldirs.xml so that the database (and thumbs if you want to) point to the local drive. If you are changing the thumbs folder to local as well, then you need to do changes in MediaPortal plugin, TV-Series plugin, etc so that the thumbs paths point to local drives. For this master HTPC, the setup of MPSync should have the local database folder as the Client DB path and the Server DB path as the current win2k8 database path. The synchronization direction should be from Client -> Server. If you are synchronizing thumbs to a local drive, do same setup on the thumbs tab. On your second HTPC (slave), you have to change mediaportaldirs.xml with local folders as well. The setup of MPSync should have the local database folder as the Client DB path and the Server DB path as the current win2k8 database path. This time the synchronization direction should be from Server -> Client. You do not need to copy the databases manually as the plugin will take care of this task. If you are synchronizing thumbs to a local drive, do same setup on the thumbs tab. Start the synchronization on the slave HTPC so that the databases/thumbs are copied over from the server to your local PC. Once this is done, execute synchronization on master HTPC to see that no errors are encountered. You should be ready to go! [/QUOTE]