Problems adding to video db and with views (1 Viewer)

[cyberquixote]

Hi,
Maybe I missed something here - I am a fairly new user, so I may be overlooking the obvious, the only similar thread I found seems to indicate this sort of thing was resolved back in june...

The short story - I have 2 issues:
1) adding new movies to the DB rechecks my entire collection (slow) and blows away any changes I have made (bad)
2) I don't see a way to make a view that shows all movies of a specific genre

Long story:

I have 50 or so of my DVD's ripped to IFO/VOB files in their own directories below a couple of different parent directories, and am using the latest/greatest version (.0.04). I added the shares for the parent directories.

I hit scan, and it takes a long time, but gets information. It comes back with several conflicts, which I resolve. I also modified many entries that were identified incorrectly, or renamed ones so they were "Incredibles, The" instead of "The Incredibles" so the alphabetic sorting would work more correctly, and changed a few of the box images to a better match to my DVD.

Now I go back and add a few new movies to those directories. The only way to get them in the database (with genre/box images etc) is with "scan" in the setup program, right? When I do that, it seems to look up the existing movies all over again (slow, but I don't care too much), the problem is, it asks me to resolve the exact same conflicts I had resolved before, and it looks like it blows away all my previous modifications! It is more like I had done a "reset database" then scan...

Is there a way to have it just look for new entries, and leave the existing ones (particularly user modified ones) alone? or is this a bug...

Also, I am trying to make a new view based on genre... for example, I would like a view that shows all WHERE GENRE="Scifi" or whatever. Is this possible? I tried setting up a new view, but it doesn't seem like the operators/limiters work that way - only for the field we are talking about - for example, I can make a 2 line entry like:
genre, operator =, restrict "scifi" list
title ... icons
which is close, but it gives an extra top level with the single entry for "scifi" in it... is it possible to flatten it?

Thanks in advance for any help!!
Parker

 

[cyberquixote]

Has no one else seen this behavior?

The scanning in the movie part of setup does seem to sometimes have the opposite problem... Often (currently last 5 attempts), scan just returns immediately, like the shares are empty, even though I have added several movies to a couple of the shares... I only have 5 or so shares (way less than 20 anyway).

 

[NLS]

delete the database and retry

 

[jucaso]

Good question Cyberquixote.

I'm having the same problem when adding new movies. I'm hoping someone will have a solution to this issue. I do add new movies frequently and having to re edit everything is no fun. I'm also getting duplicates.

Thanks.