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JustME
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 Posted - 19 Feb 2013 : 15:20:34
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I have several movies that have updated the title during the script process so the name that it is saved under is different than the tile.
Eg:The Mule\Border Run
Stored in Z:\Ext29\The Mule\The Mule.mkv
Title is Border Run
So if you use the catalog to find the movie (Border Run) you can't find it on the drive as it is named the Mule. This also occurs with most of the kungfu action flicks as they have an alternate Chinese name.
I would like to be able to do a compare of the stored file name to the title...Would that be possible within the app?
I suppose I could export it to excel and then strip everything but the two fields and then compare, but doing it with the app would be better.
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apd
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Posted - 20 Feb 2013 : 08:12:15
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You can rename the files from within the app, both in v7 and v8, using a "mask" with fields of your choice (Title, Year etc). If I were you, I'd proceed with caution, testing a few files at a time, because you never know what bug might pop up.
In v8 you need: Tools>File Manager>File Functions>Replace.
It's a bit of a drag to select the files you need to rename. Alessio has not implemented yet the possibility to select them (with filters) from the main grid.
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yan00s
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Posted - 20 Feb 2013 : 09:48:35
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Originally posted by JustME
I have several movies that have updated the title during the script process so the name that it is saved under is different than the tile.
Eg:The Mule\Border Run
Stored in Z:\Ext29\The Mule\The Mule.mkv
Title is Border Run
So if you use the catalog to find the movie (Border Run) you can't find it on the drive as it is named the Mule. This also occurs with most of the kungfu action flicks as they have an alternate Chinese name.
I would like to be able to do a compare of the stored file name to the title...Would that be possible within the app?
I suppose I could export it to excel and then strip everything but the two fields and then compare, but doing it with the app would be better.
thoughts?
For a visual comparison in the grid you could just place the File 1 column before the title column.
BTW: This calls for a "Open Explorer window for selected movie" button. That way you'd always find your file. (The player button should open your files, as well.) |
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JustME
Junior Member
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Posted - 20 Feb 2013 : 13:26:00
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@Apd
I don't want to rename my files on the Hard drives as a lot of time they are correct and the title is incorrect (Original Chinese or Italian named title while I use the English one) :-) I also have the Folder named the same and a NFO file, a picture and a URL for each movie in that folder, so renaming the title to English or correctly is the way I have decided to go.
But thanks for the suggestion!
@Yan00s
I was simply having an explorer window open with the files sorted in it beside EMM as it also showed me files that EMM had not added to the database occasionally.
Doing the additional column does make for a quick visual reference though and I can do them manually fairly easily that way. There are only about 230 movies per drive so its not that much work for each drive.
Thanks for the suggestion
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apd
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Greece
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Posted - 20 Feb 2013 : 17:33:17
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| In that case, depending on the script you use, you could dismiss the option to change the title, and only change the ones you need, manually. |
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JustME
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Posted - 20 Feb 2013 : 22:31:40
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Yep, and I had done that but unfortunately I forgot to check it after one of the updates and it reverted back to 1 and some got changed :-(.
But if that is the worst problem I have in the world, life is good :-) |
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apd
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Greece
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Posted - 22 Feb 2013 : 12:34:35
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So, why don't you restore one of the backup dbases? Wouldn't it be easier to just re-add your newer films?
BTW, this is a good op to remind an old request: Alessio, can't you find a way to store the user settings for the scripts, so that we don't have to manually select them after every update? |
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JustME
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Posted - 22 Feb 2013 : 13:08:53
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Unfortunately this happened when I was rebuilding the database from scratch again...I had converted it over to Version 8 and added movies until the memory errors convinced me to go back to 7.
Now instead of having every drive with a different assigned letter (I ran out of letters)I set each drive up as a Z drive and then put the movies under a root folder called EXT1 to EXT27.
I thought once I had this done completely in 7 I would use it as a base to test out 8 again.
Its not a big deal as I think I have them all corrected, its just nice to have the list in my WD live player seem the same as the EMM database :-)
going back through some of the old drives I also found that it had missed some .ts files as that extension wasn't kept by default so it was worth doing I guess.
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File Name to Title Compare Option