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rick69
Junior Member
Germany
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 Posted - 09 Jan 2012 : 07:54:21
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Hi friends, hi Ale,
I have been using the Extreme Movie Manager for several years.
Unfortunately, managing my movie collection is often rather difficult and requires a lot of effort.
I collect series and movies which I digitally record from TV and store them on many hard disks from 20 Gigabytes up to 2000 Gigabytes.
I often happen to record movies twice and store them on different hard disks without noticing.
My wish would be to be able to use the XMM properly, but I'm still missing a few options.
1. It would be nice if I could categorise my hard disks according to a name given by me and not according to the drive letter. (Unambiguousness)
2. It would be nice if I could search for films in the XMM which are located on different hard disks e.g. children's movies, to mark them and to copy them to a separate hard disk using the XMM as FILE MANAGER). This would require a sorting function in the XMM.
3. A better selection of double entries in order to find out which recording should be stored and which deleted.
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Alessio Viti
Forum Admin
Italy
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Posted - 09 Jan 2012 : 09:18:22
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Thank you Rick69!
I will try to do everything.
I have start to deeeply use XMM instead of just program it, to try to find the better way to use.
Your suggestions are highly appreciated. I know that I must work really hard in the file management.
About the Point #1, XMM store in the MediaLabel the Label of the Hard Disk, this should be *unique* if you name all your Hard Disk in a smart way.
Please let me know,
Ale |
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rick69
Junior Member
Germany
199 Posts |
Posted - 17 Jan 2012 : 13:48:54
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Hi Ale,
thanks for replying promptly. I will just demonstrate my main problem once again:
I connect a hard disk (named e.g. children's movies). The programme then recognises it and associates it with the drive letter D. Now I remove this hard disk and connect another one (named e.g. crime movies) and the programme again recognises it and associates it also with the drive letter D. If I now connect the children's movies hard disk additionally, it gets associated with the drive letter E and is not recognised by the programme as the first one. Thus the programm scans this disk again and wants to store the data as a new set of data instead of just recognising the children's movies hard disk by its name (Media label).
I would highly appreciate if you could provide a solution to this problem.
Take care
Rick |
Edited by - rick69 on 17 Jan 2012 13:49:40 |
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KCWhiteKnight
Junior Member
USA
202 Posts |
Posted - 17 Jan 2012 : 17:08:14
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Rick,
I was doing something like that only I wasn't that specific for drive names other than call them disk 1, 2 etc. I used disk 1 as my sorting disk and would load files there then move them to where I wanted them to go later such as disk 3 or 4. When I scanned for new movies the program asked me if I wanted to change a drive letter or do them all automatically changed which I wanted and it would update the records to the correct drive everytime. It also pointed out I had a duplicate movie like Stealing Home on disk 2 and 4 and did I want to change it. After I looked I discovered I actually had 2 movies with the same title which was correct. The work around to that is name one Stealing Home 1. When I downloaded the information I selected the correct information and imported. I have two Stealing Homes in the database pointing to different movies. Naming the file on the drive is a preference thing like I left the 1st version as just Stealing Home and the remake was Stealing Home 1. You could name them something like Orginal and Remake.
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rick69
Junior Member
Germany
199 Posts |
Posted - 18 Jan 2012 : 11:52:11
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Chad
This is not so good.
I have around 20 Drives.
The drives are from 40GB to 500GB.
My biggest drive is 1TB .
rick |
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KCWhiteKnight
Junior Member
USA
202 Posts |
Posted - 18 Jan 2012 : 16:23:42
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Rick,
I with you now. 20 drives and swapping them. Since drive letter is like part of the address to the location, you'd run into the same situation I decsribed if your crimes disk which was D is now E. It would want to swap the information in your file location to E. To change the program to look for a drive name would appear in my thinking to major overhaul of a lot of the functions. Then you run into situations where people don't name their drives so you could have 3 drives with New Volume for example and the program wouldn't know where to look.
Currently there are two possible work arounds.
1. When you plug the drive in and it used to be D but is now E. You could swap them in the operating system and rename the current D to something else and the old to D and then continue.
2. Which is a costly work around is a drive bank. I saw one that handles 10 drives but it's really expensive like $1,700.00 US and is more for servers and business usage but they are coming out with a home version this fall. It connects with a USB 3\2 port.
I upgraded a couple of drives to 3TB drives as I was working with 8 and only had internal space for 6. I was able to store about 600 files. I started down the road like you only I did folders crime, drama, kid, comedy etc. I found that was a pain since too many had mixed like crime\drama and I suppose it how you thought about the movie. Trying to stay on top of it was a lot of work moving files around. I decided to let this program do what it does best and rebuilt my drives to alpha order and did the final move. Then I go to program and look for drama or comedy or whatever I'm in the mood for. This also helped finding duplicate files since Windows warned me of dup and I could investigate it. Also if your streaming or thinking about stream in the future another consideration is that the streaming software also grabs genre from different sources so they might not match which is what I had happen. I had it under drama and it came back crime. |
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JDommi
Administrator
Germany
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Posted - 18 Jan 2012 : 16:56:38
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Well, why not using the old dos command "subst"? You have to create a folder on your harddisk containing as example "Crime" and assign a drive letter to.
subst M: C:\Crime
This way you have a simulated media label and multiple hard disks have always the same drive letter.
Maybe you can make a wshscript reading folder name and assigning the correct letter automatically.
I don't know if that's a practical method but I think it could solve your problem...
*EDIT*
Have just used google.
Maybe this could helpful, too: http://www.experts-exchange.com/Storage/Misc/Q_22056843.html
quote:
md C:\shared_drives
share c:\shared_drives
go into computer management->disk management
right click 1st drive and mount it to c:\shared_drives\drive1
right click 2nd drive and mount it to c:\shared_drives\drive2
that way he can mount \\machine\share and then when he does a dir, he'll see:
drive1 <dir>
drive2 <dir>
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Edited by - JDommi on 18 Jan 2012 17:12:55 |
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KCWhiteKnight
Junior Member
USA
202 Posts |
Posted - 18 Jan 2012 : 18:33:00
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| Hmmms, interesting I wondered about that for a minute too but figured with the hotswapping I wasn't sure it would still work. There's a nagging thought about static drives. Something to think about and research. |
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Alessio Viti
Forum Admin
Italy
9171 Posts |
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rick69
Junior Member
Germany
199 Posts |
Posted - 09 Feb 2012 : 08:37:39
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| is it possible to included this features ? |
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rick69
Junior Member
Germany
199 Posts |
Posted - 16 Feb 2012 : 16:09:30
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| with best thanks!!! |
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