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<blockquote data-quote="JSchuricht" data-source="post: 1164549" data-attributes="member: 87223">MJGraf, I like you idea of looking for a sub-string in the form ttxxxxxxx. My movie structure was originally setup for MP1 with Moving Pictures which I believe looked for a nfo or txt file with the tt number so this may become useful for other people looking to convert. I have done some testing with tinyMdiaManager to make new nfo files and files already imported to videos don't reimport to movies when adding a new nfo. Correct me if I am wrong but the only way MP2 is going to reimport everything is by changing the file name or deleting the DB and starting from scratch. I think changing the file names is potentially more dangerous than anything else especially if I have to revert so my plan for now is copying 30TB of movies from the primary server to some scratch space. Run TMM to create new nfo's, may skip this step if the scrapper is modified by then. Run a full import on a MP2 test server, then copy watched flags over with MP2 edit. Then I can check the two known movies with import issues and compare to my current MP2 installation. If all goes well then copy the new nfo files to the primary server and transfer the MP2 DB from the test server to the live MP2 server.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="JSchuricht, post: 1164549, member: 87223"] MJGraf, I like you idea of looking for a sub-string in the form ttxxxxxxx. My movie structure was originally setup for MP1 with Moving Pictures which I believe looked for a nfo or txt file with the tt number so this may become useful for other people looking to convert. I have done some testing with tinyMdiaManager to make new nfo files and files already imported to videos don't reimport to movies when adding a new nfo. Correct me if I am wrong but the only way MP2 is going to reimport everything is by changing the file name or deleting the DB and starting from scratch. I think changing the file names is potentially more dangerous than anything else especially if I have to revert so my plan for now is copying 30TB of movies from the primary server to some scratch space. Run TMM to create new nfo's, may skip this step if the scrapper is modified by then. Run a full import on a MP2 test server, then copy watched flags over with MP2 edit. Then I can check the two known movies with import issues and compare to my current MP2 installation. If all goes well then copy the new nfo files to the primary server and transfer the MP2 DB from the test server to the live MP2 server. [/QUOTE]

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