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<blockquote data-quote="RoChess" data-source="post: 921774" data-attributes="member: 18896">MovPic generates a hash on your files, its based on the content.&nbsp;So if you rename your files, or move them to another active import path, the movie reference in database is simply updated to the new name/location.&nbsp;However if you 'move' the file too slow without a file-lock, then MovPic kicks in a delete first and then re-adds it.&nbsp;For example if I move a file from \\UNC-Path\Movies\Some.Movie.avi to D:\Movies on the HTPC then even with MovPic running the path gets updated. If I move it from D:\Movies\Action\Some.Movie.avi to D:\Movies\Thriller it instantly gets updated as well. But if I move it from my D: drive to E: drive then sometimes it gets deleted first and then re-added because the D: drive is much faster then the E: drive and causes lock issues I guess (or whatever is the real reason).&nbsp;The best way to prevent it is to simply close down MePo/MovPic and move all the files first (and rename) and then launch MovPic. It will take a few seconds to mass-update everything (I've just recently moved about 350 movies over and it took about 4 secs to update, most of the time was lost creating all the log entries).&nbsp;An easy way to see this inside MovPic config is to open the first tab and look at the 'red' colored list entries. This reflects a path update has been done, and if you close it and re-open they will show their normal 'black' color. An even more detailed way would be to analyze the log file, I do this via batch scripts myself, such as:&nbsp;[code]@Echo OffIF EXIST &quot;C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\log\movingpictures.old.log&quot; find &quot; was renamed to &quot; &quot;C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\log\movingpictures.old.log&quot;IF EXIST &quot;C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\log\movingpictures.old.log&quot; find &quot; was moved/renamed to &quot; &quot;C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\log\movingpictures.old.log&quot;find &quot; was renamed to &quot; &quot;C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\log\movingpictures.log&quot;find &quot; was moved/renamed to &quot; &quot;C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\log\movingpictures.log&quot;echo.pause[/code]&nbsp;Another script I use to verify what movies got added and which movies failed to auto-approve is:&nbsp;[code]@Echo OffIF EXIST &quot;C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\log\movingpictures.old.log&quot; find &quot;Removing: &quot; &quot;C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\log\movingpictures.old.log&quot;IF EXIST &quot;C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\log\movingpictures.old.log&quot; find &quot;Added &quot;&quot;&quot; &quot;C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\log\movingpictures.old.log&quot;IF EXIST &quot;C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\log\movingpictures.old.log&quot; find &quot;MovieImporter]: No exact match for &quot; &quot;C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\log\movingpictures.old.log&quot;find &quot;Removing: &quot; &quot;C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\log\movingpictures.log&quot;find &quot;Added &quot;&quot;&quot; &quot;C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\log\movingpictures.log&quot;find &quot;MovieImporter]: No exact match for &quot; &quot;C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\log\movingpictures.log&quot;echo.pause[/code]&nbsp;I didn't bother prettying up the output, but it is definatly useful for me in a concurrent user environment with MediaPortal sometimes in use with MP-TVSeries when I want to find out what MovPic did via RDP. The above scripts let me do just that.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RoChess, post: 921774, member: 18896"] MovPic generates a hash on your files, its based on the content. So if you rename your files, or move them to another active import path, the movie reference in database is simply updated to the new name/location. However if you 'move' the file too slow without a file-lock, then MovPic kicks in a delete first and then re-adds it. For example if I move a file from [B]\\UNC-Path\Movies\Some.Movie.avi[/B] to [B]D:\Movies[/B] on the HTPC then even with MovPic running the path gets updated. If I move it from [B]D:\Movies\Action\Some.Movie.avi[/B] to[B] D:\Movies\Thriller[/B] it instantly gets updated as well. But if I move it from my D: drive to E: drive then sometimes it gets deleted first and then re-added because the D: drive is much faster then the E: drive and causes lock issues I guess (or whatever is the real reason). The best way to prevent it is to simply close down MePo/MovPic and move all the files first (and rename) and then launch MovPic. It will take a few seconds to mass-update everything (I've just recently moved about 350 movies over and it took about 4 secs to update, most of the time was lost creating all the log entries). An easy way to see this inside MovPic config is to open the first tab and look at the 'red' colored list entries. This reflects a path update has been done, and if you close it and re-open they will show their normal 'black' color. An even more detailed way would be to analyze the log file, I do this via batch scripts myself, such as: [code] @Echo Off IF EXIST "C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\log\movingpictures.old.log" find " was renamed to " "C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\log\movingpictures.old.log" IF EXIST "C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\log\movingpictures.old.log" find " was moved/renamed to " "C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\log\movingpictures.old.log" find " was renamed to " "C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\log\movingpictures.log" find " was moved/renamed to " "C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\log\movingpictures.log" echo. pause [/code] Another script I use to verify what movies got added and which movies failed to auto-approve is: [code] @Echo Off IF EXIST "C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\log\movingpictures.old.log" find "Removing: " "C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\log\movingpictures.old.log" IF EXIST "C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\log\movingpictures.old.log" find "Added """ "C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\log\movingpictures.old.log" IF EXIST "C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\log\movingpictures.old.log" find "MovieImporter]: No exact match for " "C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\log\movingpictures.old.log" find "Removing: " "C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\log\movingpictures.log" find "Added """ "C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\log\movingpictures.log" find "MovieImporter]: No exact match for " "C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\log\movingpictures.log" echo. pause [/code] I didn't bother prettying up the output, but it is definatly useful for me in a concurrent user environment with MediaPortal sometimes in use with MP-TVSeries when I want to find out what MovPic did via RDP. The above scripts let me do just that. [/QUOTE]

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